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<span style="color:#006400">'''MARTI, Jesus'''</span> (1976-2009), drowned at Santa Catalina Island while night scuba diving for lobsters on ''The Bottom Scratcher'' out of Long Beach.  It happened early sat morning on the third and last dive of the trip. He was found floating with all of his equipment on. He was a husband and father of two children. The weather and seas were calm and flat at the time of his death. The wind and waves didn't pick up till that afternoon all other divers on board collected limits. 



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=====<span style="color:#006400">In the News~</span>=====


'''October 3, 2009 [LAT]:''' “An amateur fisherman participating in the opening weekend of spiny lobster season drowned off the coast of Santa Catalina Island early Saturday morning, authorities said. The man was night-diving with a charter boat group in 30-foot-deep water when he floated to the surface, unconscious, shortly after 4 a.m., said U.S. Coast Guard spokesman Tyler Stutin. Authorities rushed him to Catalina's USC hyperbaric Chamber, but he was declared dead a short time later. The Los Angeles County Coroner identified him as Jesus Marti, a Long Beach resident in his early 30s. Stutin said the Coast Guard and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department would investigate the death. At the time of the accident, hundreds of novice fishermen were swarming the waters three miles off the western coast of the island searching for lobster. Many of them were inexperienced and struggled under bad weather and gale force winds. "We are running into a lot of problems. The weather is picking up," Stutin said.”


'''October 8, 2009 [Green Hills Mortuary Guest Book]:''' “Jesus Marti (1976-2009) passed away October 3, 2009 at the age of 33. He was born in Mexico, and had been a resident of Long Beach at the time of his passing. Jesus is survived by his loving wife, Jennifer Gallardo; children, Jazmin and Diego Marti; parents, Ismael and Lucila Marti; sisters, Ana (Eran) Norton, Amanda Marti; brother, Ismael (Esmeralda) Marti, Jr.; nieces, Maya, Nicole and Sophia. Visitation will be Saturday, October 10, 2009, from 12:00 noon until 9:00 p.m. at the mortuary. Interment will be private.”