Torrance resident says ‘divine intervention’ kept him off deadly dive boat

If not for complications from a hip-replacement surgery, Torrance resident Dale Sheckler, 62, could have been one of the victims in Monday’s tragic dive boat incident in the Channel Islands.
Recovery crews were still working Tuesday to bring ashore more of the presumed 34 people who died when the boat caught fire and sunk in Platts Harbor on the northern end of Santa Cruz Island.
Sheckler called it divine intervention that he wasn’t on the boat.
“My heart goes out to those who