Abandoned diver sues ocean dive company A...

Abandoned diver sues

ocean dive company

A man abandoned while scuba diving off Newport Beach and later

rescued by a group of Boy Scouts on a sailing trip is suing the dive

trip’s organizers for $4 million.

Long Beach resident Daniel Carlock, who was 45 at the time, claims

in his suit that Venice-based Ocean Adventures Dive Co. and Sundiver

Charters of Long Beach acted negligently on the April 25, 2004 dive

trip he booked with them. The suit claims he contacted skin cancer as

a result of a severe sunburn he got while floating in the ocean and

that he suffered emotional distress.

Carlock lost track of his “dive buddy,” also named in the suit,

while diving near an off-shore oil rig. He floated off the coast for

some four hours and nobody reported him missing until they reached a

second dive location.

“He began to shiver and believed that he was left to die a

miserable fate,” the lawsuit reads. “He contemplated being run over

by a freighter, freezing to death and eaten by sharks.”

A group of San Diego Boy Scouts on the Newport Beach-based tall

ship Argus found Carlock at about 2:30 p.m. while on a sail to

Catalina.

He was treated for hypothermia after his rescue, the suit states.

Early morning pursuit

ends in parking lot

A police pursuit that started in Irvine ended without incident

early Friday morning at a South Coast Plaza parking lot.

Irvine Police responded to a call of a vehicle burglary in

progress just after 11:30 p.m. Thursday in a residential neighborhood

near the San Diego Freeway and University Drive, Sgt. Tom Allan said.

Three suspects fled in a 1993 Nissan Sentra when Irvine police

showed up, Allan said. Officers followed the car, which was driving

at speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour, up the San Diego Freeway

and off the Fairview Road exit, he said.

The car’s driver pulled over in the parking lot just after

midnight near Nordstrom’s and surrendered without incident, Allan

said.

Police arrested 18-year-old Santa Ana resident Marco Nava on

suspicion of burglary, conspiracy to commit burglary and felony

evasion. They also took into custody on the same charges two

17-year-old Santa Ana residents, whose names were not released

because they are juveniles.

-- Marisa O’Neil