The Region - News from March 9, 1987
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Harbor police recovered the body of a 38-year-old San Diego man minutes after he became the third person in three days to jump off the San Diego-Coronado bridge. Michael Douglas Harman, a surgical technician at Sharp Cabrillo Hospital, parked his 1985 Ford sedan in the middle of the bridge and jumped over the side at 7:28 a.m., said a San Diego County coroner’s spokesman. He was pulled out of the water 20 minutes later and pronounced dead. On Friday afternoon, Sven Donald Nelson, 54, a retired Navy commander who resides in Coronado, was killed instantly when he leaped from the bridge, said Deputy Coroner Chuck Bolton. Nelson drove onto the bridge, parked his car, climbed onto the bridge railing and jumped, Bolton said. His body was recovered by harbor police within minutes. No note was found in the car. Early Friday morning, Gail Lynn French, 29, of Oceanside survived a plunge off the bridge.
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