24-Year-Old Woman Swept Out to Sea at a Santa Cruz County Beach: Coast Guard Suspends Search After Covering 95 Square Miles
At about 8 p.m. on November 8, at Panther State Beach near Davenport in Santa Cruz County, California, 24-year-old Se Nah Park and three companions passed through the keyhole opening in the beach's rock wall and were trapped by the rising tide. The three companions made it back to shore; Park was swept out to sea and has not been found. On November 10, the U.S. Coast Guard announced that after roughly eight hours of searching across about 95 square miles, it had suspended its active search for her, pending new information.
The search was led by the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office, with CAL FIRE's San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit, Coast Guard Sector San Francisco, California State Parks and the Santa Cruz Fire Department taking part, using helicopters, boats, drones and ground crews. Lt. Max Holloway, the Coast Guard's search and rescue mission coordinator, said suspending a search is a difficult decision, made after weighing the extensive search effort and the environmental conditions. After the official search was suspended, Park's family and friends continued searching the coastline on their own.
At the time of the incident, that stretch of coast was under a National Weather Service beach hazards statement, with a risk of sneaker waves and strong rip currents and breaking waves of 12 to 16 feet. The Weather Service's Bay Area and Monterey office also warned this week that high surf will return this weekend, with breaking waves of 20 to 30 feet.
Park lives in San Bruno, in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office asks anyone with information about her whereabouts to call 831-471-1121.
Source: U.S. Coast Guard
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Photo: 图：加州 Santa Cruz 海岸大浪拍岸（资料图，非事发海滩）。Don DeBold 摄，CC BY，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Waves crashing against the Santa Cruz shore in California (file photo, not the beach where the incident occurred). Photo by Don DeBold, CC BY, via Wikimedia Commons.
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