the local diving new group is reporting as follows:
> Duane Fey <dfey@...> wrote:
> My buddy, who's a Lt. Commander in the Coast Guard,
> said a recreational diver died on a commercial boat
> today. He thinks it was the Monterey Express. Does
> anyone have any info?
>
> At 11:42 PM 1/28/2006, Kawika Chetron wrote:
>The Express was doing a dive at or near the mile buoy
> in, IIRC 130 ft, according to an informational broadcast
> Tim sent out over Ch 16. A few minutes after I heard
> this broadcast, Tim called the Coast Guard to request EMS
> support for a diver that he said had embolised. I think
> they were on the dock in about 5 minutes, but according
> to one witness I saw later, the diver was not conscious
> at that time.
>
> At 7:29 PM Marcos Perreau Guimaraes wrote:
> Yes the depth is about 130' at the mile buoy (at the bottom
> of the chain), your memory is good. I dove it a few times,
> there were some whale bones scattered around but beside
> that it's not too high a dive spot if you don't enjoy sand as much
> as I do. That's not an easy dive on a day with large swells,
> as the BIG chain trash around and silts everything out. And you
> really don't want to get close to it. It's also seal territory and
> they are not shy about letting you know it. Mile buoy reef,
> a couple of hundred yards away, it's a little deeper, with
> just a few rocks getting up to 130'.
> Marcos.