Body Of Young Girl Swept Into Pacific Is Found Off California

The assemblage of a woman swept into nan Pacific amid precocious surf was recovered Sunday disconnected nan Central California coast, not acold from wherever her father, who besides died, tried to prevention her.

The Monterey County Sheriff's Office said a diver discovered her assemblage soon aft 1 p.m. Sunday 100 yards offshore astir a half-mile northbound of her past known location successful nan water.

The agency confirmed nan assemblage is that of nan girl, and it said aft having spoken pinch family members that she is 7, not 5, arsenic it initially reported. Her sanction has not been released.

Shortly earlier 1 p.m. Friday, a activity pulled nan woman from nan shoreline into nan h2o adjacent Garrapata State Beach, astir 12 miles southbound of Carmel-by-the-Sea, nan sheriff's agency said. The surf astatine nan clip was estimated astatine 15 to 20 feet.

Her father, identified arsenic Yuji Hu, 39, of Calgary, went into nan h2o aft her, but some were swept farther retired to sea, authorities person said.

An off-duty California State Parks lifeguard pulled Hu from nan h2o and administered CPR earlier Hu was rushed to a hospital, wherever he was pronounced dead, authorities said.

The girl's mother, who was not identified, besides went into nan h2o to help, authorities said. She made it backmost to onshore pinch nan lifeguard's help, authorities and section agencies said.

She was released from a infirmary aft curen for mild hypothermia, nan sheriff's agency said Sunday.

A 2-year-old who was pinch nan family was not injured, it said.

"The family has expressed their gratitude to each agencies, personnel, and organization members progressive successful nan hunt and betterment efforts," nan agency said.

In a abstracted storm-related incident, a 71-year-old man successful Sutter County died erstwhile his car was swept distant by overflowing stormwater on Pleasant Grove Creek connected Friday afternoon, according to nan California Highway Patrol.

The agency said successful a connection that signs informing nan roadworthy is flooded were posted astatine nan location earlier nan incident.

The roiling oversea and large waves on nan Central Coast successful Monterey County were associated pinch the weekend's winter-pattern storm that dove down California's coast.

The National Weather Service warned beachgoers on nan Central Coast that double- and triple-overhead surf was looming and that "sneaker waves" known to onslaught barren soil pinch small announcement were imaginable Friday.

The storm, which moved eastbound Sunday, flooded immoderate Southern California streets, triggered sliding conveyance collisions, and produced much than 12 inches of rainfall astatine San Marcos Pass successful Santa Barbara County, according to nan National Weather Service.

Santa Barbara County took successful astir half its mean yearly rainfall of 17 inches pinch nan play storm, according to National Weather Service data.