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The Region - News from Feb. 17, 1987

The Coast Guard was searching for a man who drifted away from a sailboat after diving in the surf about a half-mile offshore from Point Mugu, Ventura County authorities said. Investigators said the man, whose name was not released, had jumped into the ocean to free a line tangled in the boat’s propeller. A woman companion on the 36-foot boat said the man “was in the water and just couldn’t catch up when the boat began to drift away,” investigators said.

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