Free divers survey Matador wreck

by Garth MeyerFree divers Lance Lee Davis and Johnny Carabajal were training just off of Veterans Park the morning of Feb. 9 when a Harbor Patrol boat pulled up to their inflatable raft. The officer asked if they would dive on the wreck of the Matador. The King Harbor-based, 42-foot commercial fishing vessel had sunk the night before, a thousand feet off of Redondo Beach. Its four crew members were pulled from the water. “The (Patrol’s) concern was they wanted to make s