Recovering Tony Scott's body all in a day's work for port's diving team
No one knew anything about the man quickly scaling the 10-foot fence that lines the edge of the Vincent Thomas Bridge, other than the fact he was intent on jumping Sunday afternoon.
Before officers could arrive to coax him down, emergency operators heard several 911 callers gasp in horror as British director Tony Scott - an avid mountain climber - leapt from the span's apex around 12:30 p.m. and plunged 185 feet into the murky water below.
Scott, the director of such blockbusters as "Top Gun," "Crimson Tide" and "Unstoppable," was already floating facedown by the time a motorcycle officer reached the bridge.
"It all went down very fast," said Lt. Michael Capodanno, who heads the Port of Los Angeles Police Department's maritime operations, which includes the dive team.
Officers with port police, the Los Angeles Police Department and California Highway Patrol joined city firefighters and the U.S. Coast Guard in searching for Scott, still unaware that the man who just jumped to his death had also directed some of Hollywood's most successful films.
The crew of a port police patrol boat arrived moments later and unsuccessfully tried to retrieve Scott as he sank into the port's Main Channel.
They quickly used GPS equipment to lock the coordinates of where the body was last seen as Los Angeles
Fire Department's dive team launched a rescue attempt. Scott wasn't found an hour later, moving the port police dive team into recovery mode.
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