Added: April 23, 2011 – The teenagers involved in the accident are from Carson City, Nevada, not Carson, California.

The original article is here.

Posted: 10:23 PM Apr 11, 2011

The Monterey County Coroner’s Office has completed the postmortem examination into the drowning deaths of Carson teens in the Monterey Bay Saturday.

The Monterey County Coroner’s Office has completed the postmortem examination into the drowning deaths of Carson teens in the Monterey Bay Saturday.

The specific cause of their deaths will be released when the investigation is complete says officials.

The teens were scuba diving with other Carson High students in Monterey Bay, California. 19 divers went down into the water for the dive, but only 17 came back up.

After what has now been discovered to be a more than 2 hour search, the two divers were found at the bottom of the sea floor.

Carson school district says their tanks were empty. Both were in cardiac arrest. Paramedics administered CPR all the way to the hospital, but neither could be resuscitated.

Students say they’re not blaming anyone for what happened. Carson school district says that an official at the scene of the accident believes it to be an accident but no official results have been released.

Thank you, Crazy Ivan for pointing this Easy Reader article out.

Remember fellow divers, when we’re in the water, we are part of the food chain.

The good thing is that human blood has a lot of iron in it, so humans don’t taste good to sharks; chances are you won’t be eaten after their initial test bite.

The original article can be found here.

By Kevin Cody, March 25th, 2011

Photo by Brad Jacobson

A six-foot dolphin with its rib cage exposed and its entrails missing washed up on the beach at the Redondo Breakwall on Thursday. The dead dolphin was spotted by Breakwall surfer Chris Wells about 3 p.m. and photographed about an hour later by surf photographer Brad Jacobson. View the PHOTO GALLERY.

“It’s a predation kill, most likely by a great white shark,” Dave Janiger, a curatorial assistant in the mammalogy department of the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum, said Thursday evening, after viewing Jacobson’s photos.

“This long beaked common dolphin is pretty fresh. It died within 24 hours, and close to shore,” Janiger said.

“That area is close to the Redondo Canyon, where large white sharks have been known to hang out. The dolphin is bitten in the ventral area of the body, which is classic for white sharks coming up and attacking from below,” Janiger noted.

The dolphin’s presence put to rest skepticism that greeted ET Surf Shop manager Daniel Del Castillo’s claim to have seen a big fin speeding past the line-up at the Breakwall Sunday morning.

Del Castillo told fellow surfers he was on the beach at the Breakwall about 9:45 a.m. Sunday morning watching friends Steve Howe and Charlie Carver surf, when he saw a two–foot-tall, triangular fin just north of the surfers.

“I lost sight of it, and was thinking maybe it was just a dolphin, when I saw the fin again, speeding south toward the breakwall, about where the outside sets were breaking.”

None of the surfers in the water, who were sitting inside at the time, reported seeing the fin. But professional surfer Sean Burrell, who was in the water, said he saw an adult and a baby sea lion inside the surf line, which he said is unusual.

“A surfer who was standing with me saw my eyes get real big, so he didn’t doubt me when I told him what I saw. But the other guys were asking if I had photos. I do now,” Del Castillo said. ER