Family of spear fisher who died after nearly drowning in La Jolla still waiting for answers

It’s something he would do regularly, so Emily Vastola Ortiz wouldn’t have expected it to be the last thing he did. “From what I’ve heard, he got stuck in a current,” she said, in reference to her 54-year-old father, Johnathan Edward Vastola, who died last Saturday after nearly drowning at Marine Street Beach in La Jolla.

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