{"id":693660,"date":"2026-05-26T00:05:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T00:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/693660\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T00:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T00:05:16","slug":"scuba-diver-dead-near-west-vancouvers-whytecliff-park-2nd-death-in-matter-of-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/693660\/","title":{"rendered":"Scuba diver dead near West Vancouver&#8217;s Whytecliff Park; 2nd death in matter of days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>A man has died while scuba diving off West Vancouver, in the second such death in British Columbia waters in less than a week.<\/p>\n<p>West Vancouver police say they received a call about a diver in distress off Whytecliff Park around 1:30 p.m. PT on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>They say agencies, including the Coast Guard, fire and rescue and paramedics, responded but the 50-year-old man was declared dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Police say his family has been notified and there are no suspicious circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, another scuba diver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/scuba-diver-death-gabriola-island-bc-9.7208706\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">died off Gabriola Island<\/a> near the east coast of Vancouver Island.<\/p>\n<p>RCMP said the death of the 66-year-old man, who was found in the water near a mooring buoy, wasn&#8217;t suspicious.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-693660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}