US tourist dies while diving
A tourist from the United States has died while SCUBA diving off San Pedro. On the afternoon of January first, thirty-five year old Robert Marks of Westminster, Colorado was ascending from a depth of around eighty feet at the Amigos wreck site and signaled to divemaster Carlos Garbutt that all was well. But by the time he reached the surface something had gone tragically wrong. According to police reports boat captain Kevin Smith dove in to help Marks but in the end it was too late. CPR was unsuccessful and Marks was pronounced dead on arrival at San Pedro.
