She was diving off a private boat, one of the regular private boats.
If it's who I think it was, she's a ScubaBoard NorCal regular.
Rapid ascent from 90' at Ball-Buster, symptoms consistent with
AGE.
Linda and I had finished our first dive on the deep shale and were
starting to pull the hook when we caught the CG side of the VHF
traffic. Since we couldn't hear the boat side, I assumed it was
down in Carmel. Just as we finished pulling the hook I caught
just a bit of the boat side: "Ball-Buster". And then enough
description of the boat that I knew which boat it was. We headed
for Ball-Buster and met them probably between Hopkins and
Lovers. The CG was about a minute behind so we stayed out
of it, and followed them in. When got back to the dock, it became
apparent that the gear had been left. Michael Murphy volunteer
to bring his boat to help look. Michael on Sea Hound and Linda and I on Black Dog spent about
three hours running patterns trying to locate the gear with no
success. Michael dove Ballbuster when we gave up searching and sent the
boat's anchor up (they had cut the line) on a lift bag and we
picked it up. Escapade was starting to run patterns when we headed
in.
Outcome did not look positive, but CHOMP hadn't given up at 2:55
pm (I talked to one of her buddies who was at CHOMP).
Best hopes for a good outcome.