This is a sad story and probably pretty preventable.<\/p>\n
A 65 year old man on his 14th SCUBA dive decides to go it alone….<\/p>\n
Man drowns scuba diving off Anacapa Island 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.<\/p>\n \u201cThe regulator was out of his mouth and he was lying there unresponsive,\u201d Stevens said.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Koenig was by himself but among a group diving off the recreational dive boat Spectre out of Ventura Harbor, Stevens said.<\/p>\n Koenig, described as about 6 feet tall and 180 pounds, started scuba diving in January, Stevens said. It was his 14th dive.<\/p>\n
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\nA Santa Barbara man drowned Friday while scuba diving off Anacapa Island, authorities said.<\/p>\n