School district issues statement about students' deaths
The following is a news release issued by the Carson City School District:
Stephen Anderson age 16, and Keegan Aiazzi age 17, died in a scuba diving accident in the Monterey Bay, California area on Saturday, April 9, 2011. The two were part of a scuba diving event that was organized and sponsored by a scuba diving business in Reno.
Following successful dives on Friday evening and Saturday morning, both young men who had recently become certified scuba divers, did not surface with the rest of the group during the second dive on Saturday morning.
Diving instructors accompanying the group began searching for the divers immediately while emergency calls were made to the local fire department rescue squad and the Coast Guard. The bodies of the young men were located together on the sea floor following a 2 ½ hour search. Both air tanks of the divers were empty. Government agency officials who were on the scene consider the deaths accidental.
Both young men were juniors at Carson High School. They were popular, outgoing individuals who were involved in school activities. This is a tremendous loss to our school and community and our hearts go out to their families.
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