A 64-year-old woman passed away Saturday morning after suffering a medical emergency while diving on the coast of Catalina Island.
Los Angeles County fire crews and Avalon sheriff deputies responded to an area near the Catalina Island casino after receiving reports of a woman in distress.
A woman in her early 60’s and a male friend of hers were diving about 25-yards-off shore, near the Casino Point underwater park. The pair started coming back to the shore when the woman started showing signs of distress…