Per some facebook postings, the diver was found and had passed. No other details at this time.
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A diver who went missing in waters about five miles from Huntington Beach on Sunday morning, Jan. 16, was found dead that evening.
Search crews spent hours combing the area surrounding an offshore oil processing facility known as platform Elly, U.S. Coast Guard officials said in a Tweet. The missing person was described as a commercial diver, Long Beach Fire Department spokesman Brian Fisk said.
The Coast Guard asked the LBFD and other local agencies to help them look for the diver shortly after 11:30 a.m., Fisk said. The person was found dead after an hours-long search, Coast Guard officials said.
The body pulled from the ocean was handed over to Los Angeles County Coroner’s officials Sunday evening, Coast Guard officials said. That person’s identity was not made public Sunday evening.
Further information was not immediately available.
Sorry, we were posting at the same time. I'll report mine to be deleted.
Several sites reported on the search, but this one has the outcome