Body of diver pulled from Salt Point State Park

<p>An unidentified diver's body was pulled from the ocean at Salt Point State Park on Sunday by the Sonoma County Sheriff's helicopter crew.</p><p>The helicopter, deputies and state parks lifeguards responded to a report of a person floating face down in the water near Horseshoe Cove about 1 p.m., Sgt. Dave Thompson said in a press release.</p><p>The diver, wearing a wetsuit, was partially out of the water when Paramedic Scott Westrope was lowered to him on a 100-foot line attached to the helicopter.</p><p>Pilot Paul Bradley lifted Westrope and the man to the top of the bluffs surrounding the cove, where the man was determined to be dead, Thompson said.</p><p>In a separate incident, just as the mission was completed, hikers reported someone stranded on a rocky outcropping south of Horseshoe Cove.</p><p>Two men were spotted on a rock surrounded by rough water, and they were hoisted to shore separately by Westrope and Flight Deputy Chris Lomanto, again using the 100-foot rescue line.</p><p>The Santa Rosa men, ages 19 and 20, had been fishing on the rock when the tide came in, cutting them off from the shore, Thompson said.</p>