UPDATE: Body found in ocean off Redondo Beach
Here's an update on the body found in the water off Redondo Beach earlier today. The info comes from Redondo Beach police Sgt. Phil Keenan:Whale watchers on a boat a quarter-mile off Redondo Beach spotted the body.
Her name is Cindy Denq, 39, of El Monte.
Police said their preliminary work indicates this was a suicide. They could not find that she jumped from a boat. She either entered the water from the beach or leaped from the rocks.
Nearly 100 people were aboard the boat, Voyager, at the time, including many children. More on this in a second.
Redondo Beach Harbor Patrol officers pulled the body from the water onto their boat and performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation, but she was already dead.
They returned her to the Redondo Beach marina, where paramedics confirmed she had no vital signs.
According to police, Denq was plucked from the water on Feb. 23, when she jumped from the Voyager. The Voyager circled around and people pulled her back onto the boat. They called police, but the woman denied that she tried to commit suicide.
There is no indication that she jumped from the Voyager today, but it's interesting that people aboard the boat found her.
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a boy? really...?
Thanks for pointing out my mistakes. Extremely busy day.
My daughter was on the Voyager on March 25th and saw the woman fall from the boat, hit the prop face down and remain in the water. The kids began screaming until the captain came to see what happened. The boat circled the body until the police arrived. My daughter saw everything that happened. They did not just encounter the body in the water while they were on their whale watching trip.
I am horrified. I can't believe what I am reading. I just saw the above comment.
I have been meaning to write to you about this case as I was there myself. In fact after our boat took off once the fire dept arrived I called Donna Littlejohn, who I know from the dog park and have become friends with, to give her a tip about what happen.
It is ironic that we picked such day to take my mother and sister, who were visiting my husband and I from Rome, whale watching. There were many inner city kids on board who came on a field trip. It was a beautiful day as we made our way out of the Harbor. In the mean time a lady was speaking over the megaphone giving us a preview of what lay ahead. We had just come across some sea lions on our way out and at one point she said, "look to the right of the boat AHEAD," as she spotted something. We all got excited because we saw something in the distance. Much to our dismay as we got closer we all realized that it was a human body and not a marine creature as expected.
She looked to be a woman, she was fully clothed and she still was wearing her tennis shoes. She was floating in the water face down and she clearly looked lifeless. Our boat immediately called for help and the boat just remained there until the fire department boat showed up. We DID NOT circle around the body, we simply stopped where we were in order for the rescue boat to see where the body was.
In the mean time things got a bit hairy on the boat. Some people thought it was a joke. Everyone ran to the right side of the boat to see what was going on as the news traveled. Kids were taking pictures with their cameras. HOWEVER, there was NO SCREAMING by the kids to alert the captain because we all came to the sad realization as we approached the body.
Much to my horror a woman got on her cell phone and re-counted what had been happening all the while she made fun of the situation. It is beyond me how some people could be so insensitive and heartless. I chose not to take pictures of any part of this situation, the floating body or the rescue, out of respect for the dead.
Anyway, as soon as the rescue boat showed up we proceeded with our journey and as we sailed off the two rescuers pulled the victim out of the water. The last image of it all for me was seeing her lifeless body being pulled out of the water. My husband and I wondered how she could have ended up there and whether she had accidentally fallen off the pier or committed suicide. Nevertheless, it was a very sad and unexpected event for all of us to see a cadaver floating in the water.
I can't imagine how this woman could have jumped off our boat and be ahead of us. We approached her from a far. So we DID ENCOUNTER the body. Had she jumped off we would have not only heard it, but she would have been close to us. If this child saw this person jump off then why didn't she say something at the time? Her speaking up would have be imperative in the woman being rescued by one of the crew members.
So Reina Bonilla have a chat with your daughter and teach her not to make up stories and alter the truth. Have a little respect for the dead, the media, and the journalists.
As a last comment, upon reading your post about it I was shaken to find out that the victim had tried killing herself by jumping from the same boat. It is very ironic that the same boat would discover her lifeless body.
Sanam Lamborn
i was on the voyager when the woman was found the second time!! I wish that I hadn't seen her so I would not be so tromatized.Even though she was found on our whale watching trip, I would have wished that she hadn't killed herself. Or so I heard.