Crime & Safety
Search On For Missing Diver Near Oil Platform Off SoCal Coast
Rescuers are searching for a diver who went missing while with a group of divers near an oil platform 7 miles off the OC/Long Beach coast.
ORANGE COUNTY, CA — Rescuers searched for a missing diver Sunday near an oil platform near the coast of northern Orange County and Long Beach.
The diver was with a group of people yet went missing near the Elly Oil platform at around 10:30 a.m. Sunday.
The U.S. Coast Guard was assisting local agencies including the Long Beach Fire Department, which responded to the area where the diver went missing.
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"Coast Guard air and surface assets along with local partner agencies are actively searching for a missing diver in the vicinity of platform Elly off the coast of Huntington Beach," the USCG tweeted at 12:40 p.m.
It's not the first time a diver went missing near Elly. In 2017, a diver's body was found more than 200 feet down near the oil platform following a commercial dive involving an uncontrolled descent that left three people injured.
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The Platform Elly sits about 7-1/2 miles off the coast.
City News Service and Patch Staffer Paige Austin contributed to this report.
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