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Divers rescued near Anacapa Island
Two divers who came to the surface unresponsive were rescued Saturday morning off Anacapa Island in a joint effort between the Ventura County Fire Department and Coast Guard.
The Coast Guard got a call about 10 a.m. from an 85-foot commercial diving vessel near Anacapa Island that a 40-year-old woman was unresponsive and foaming at the mouth and that a 40-year-old man was also unresponsive and had bloodshot eyes, officials said.
The Coast Guard sent a vessel to rescue the divers. An air squad with the Ventura County Fire Department lifted the divers from the rescue vessel, according to officials.
Both divers were taken to St. John's Regional Medical Center in Oxnard, officials said. Their conditions were not immediately known.