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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.