{"id":1911,"date":"2010-12-13T13:05:05","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T20:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1911"},"modified":"2010-12-14T13:15:27","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T20:15:27","slug":"palmdale-diver-dies-off-palos-verdes-peninsula-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=1911","title":{"rendered":"Palmdale Diver Dies Off Palos Verdes Peninsula Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>December 12, 2010 |  6:01 pm<\/p>\n<p>A Palmdale man died Sunday afternoon after failing to surface from a recreational dive off the coast of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, U.S. Coast Guard officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was diving in the Flat Rock area 100 yards off the coast from a private boat with two friends when he failed to surface, said Capt. Abby Balderas with the L.A. County Lifeguards in Redondo. Redondo Beach Harbor Patrol and L.A. Country Lifeguards launched a search and found the unresponsive diver about noon.<\/p>\n<p>A Coast Guard helicopter took the diver and a Los Angeles County paramedic to a hyperbaric chamber at Two Harbors, Catalina Island, where the diver was declared dead sometime after 1 p.m., said U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Ana Thorsson.<\/p>\n<p>The L.A. County coroner\u2019s office identified the victim as 58-year old Steven Dinsdale of Palmdale.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The conditions were perfect for diving and lots of people were out there,&#8221; said Balderas. &#8220;It was just an unfortunate dive accident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Jason Felch<\/p>\n<p>The original article from <i>The Los Angeles Times<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/12\/palmdale-diver-dies-off-palos-verdes-peninsula-coast.html\" target=\"_new\">can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the <em>Daily Breeze<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Diver Rescued Off PVE Dies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From news services<br \/>\nPosted: 12\/13\/2010 07:01:49 AM PST<br \/>\nUpdated: 12\/13\/2010 07:26:46 PM PST<\/p>\n<p>A diver who stopped breathing in the ocean off Palos Verdes Estates died after being flown to Catalina Island for emergency treatment. <\/p>\n<p>Steven Dinsdale, 58, of Palmdale failed to surface from a dive Sunday near Flat Rock, on the northwestern side of the Palos Verdes Peninsula. The Redondo Beach Harbor Patrol began searching for him, and the Coast Guard sent a boat crew. <\/p>\n<p>Dinsdale was found unconscious in the water and rushed to nearby Redondo Beach King Harbor. There, he was loaded into a Coast Guard helicopter for the 30-mile flight to Two Harbors, where he died while undergoing emergency treatment. <\/p>\n<p>The original article from <i>The Daily Breeze<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybreeze.com\/latestnews\/ci_16846518\" target=\"_new\">can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 12, 2010 | 6:01 pm A Palmdale man died Sunday afternoon after failing to surface from a recreational dive off the coast of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, U.S. Coast Guard officials said. The victim was diving in the Flat Rock area 100 yards off the coast from a private boat with two friends when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}