{"id":1317,"date":"2008-06-02T18:24:51","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T01:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2008-06-02T18:24:51","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T01:24:51","slug":"death-at-casino-point-catalina-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1317","title":{"rendered":"Death at Casino Point, Catalina, California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The original article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/a-1419764~Retired_sheriff_s_sergeant_dies_after_Catalina_scuba_mishap.html?cid=rss-California_Headlines\" target=\"_new\"> is right here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jun 2, 2008 7:09 AM<br \/>\nAVALON, Calif. (Map, News) &#8211;<br \/>\nA retired Riverside County sheriff&#8217;s sergeant is dead after a weekend scuba diving accident off Santa Catalina Island.<\/p>\n<p>A Los Angeles County sheriff&#8217;s dispatcher said 50-year-old David Pike was diving with an instructor in about 20 feet of water Saturday at Casino Point Underwater Park when he ran into trouble.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after giving the instructor a thumbs-up signal, Pike floated to the surface, not breathing. He was given CPR and taken by paramedics to a hyperbaric chamber on the island. He remained unresponsive and was declared dead a couple hours later.<\/p>\n<p>Hyperbaric chambers are used to treat divers for decompression sickness, also called the bends.<\/p>\n<p>Catalina is about 20 miles off the coast of Los Angeles County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The original article is right here. Jun 2, 2008 7:09 AM AVALON, Calif. (Map, News) &#8211; A retired Riverside County sheriff&#8217;s sergeant is dead after a weekend scuba diving accident off Santa Catalina Island. A Los Angeles County sheriff&#8217;s dispatcher said 50-year-old David Pike was diving with an instructor in about 20 feet of water [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}