DECEPTION PASS — The woman who disappeared while diving near Deception Pass has been identified as a Walla Walla University student.
A spokeswoman for the Seventh Day Adventist university at College Place, Rosa Jimenez, says Shari Booth was taking a scuba class at the university’s Rosario Marine Laboratory.
The 19-year-old freshman from Brush Prairie was reported missing Monday and was not found in a search involving helicopters from the Coast Guard, Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, searchers and divers with the Skagit County sheriff’s office, volunteers and boaters.
Walla Walla University contracts with a professional diving business to provide scuba classes. Classes are postponed pending an investigation.
Information from Skagit Valley Herald, Blue Mountain Television
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