I’ve been dry for the last few weeks.

For what ever reason, diving in May seems to be the worst diving of the year around here – bad visibility, red tide, generally crappy.

Terranea Resort has apparently asked the city of Rancho Palos Verdes for money to continue construction and, when it’s scheduled to open in June, operating costs.

You can read about it, compliments of the Daily Breeze, by clicking here.

This is a sad story and probably pretty preventable.

A 65 year old man on his 14th SCUBA dive decides to go it alone….

Man drowns scuba diving off Anacapa Island

A Santa Barbara man drowned Friday while scuba diving off Anacapa Island, authorities said.

John G. Koenig, 65, was diving around 1 p.m. on the north side near Cathedral Cove when other divers found one of his fins. A frantic search followed, and Koenig was found on the ocean floor, about 27 feet deep, said Craig Stevens, senior deputy Ventura County medical examiner.

“The regulator was out of his mouth and he was lying there unresponsive,” Stevens said.

Divers removed his weight belt and brought Koenig back to a recreational dive boat where efforts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful, Stevens said. CPR was performed for nearly 30 minutes, he said.

An autopsy Saturday morning showed Koenig drowned, Stevens said. The autopsy showed evidence of cardiac disease, but no clear sign he suffered a heart attack. There was no other trauma found on his body, Stevens said.

Koenig was by himself but among a group diving off the recreational dive boat Spectre out of Ventura Harbor, Stevens said.

Koenig, described as about 6 feet tall and 180 pounds, started scuba diving in January, Stevens said. It was his 14th dive.

The original article can be found here.