Granada Hills Woman, 41, Drowns in Night Dive

A 41-year-old Granada Hills woman who completed scuba training last week drowned during a night dive off the coast north of Malibu, authorities said Thursday.

Bobbi Jean Greenhead, who owns a Studio City video and audio post production company, became separated from her partner after entering the water Wednesday near Neptune’s Net restaurant a mile south of Sycamore Cove, Ventura County Sheriff’s deputies said.

The partner, 39-year-old Patrisha Gyllenswan of Brentwood, left the water after her shoulder strap broke. Gyllenswan was helped out of the water by one of the dive masters, sheriff’s deputies said.

Gyllenswan noticed a diving light that was separate from the others and pointed it out to dive master Sigfus Sigurdsson, 25, of Manhattan Beach, who pulled the unconscious Greenhead from the water.

Sigurdsson began CPR, authorities said, until paramedics took over and transported Greenhead to St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Oxnard, where she was pronounced dead.

According to the sheriff’s report, the divers were supposed to enter the water in pairs and all join together beyond the breakers. Greenhead and her partner were holding hands when Gyllenswan had the problem with her strap, the Sheriff’s Department report said.

The victim’s husband, Richard Greenhead, said his wife had taken training classes that involved “textbook stuff” and had dived in a swimming pool. He did not know how many dives she had taken before the accident.

“She had made up her mind that she wanted to become a dive master,” her husband said. “She loved the water.”