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Same thing happens here along the Northern California coast. With El Nino this year, the waves are bigger and more powerful than a typical winter and catch peo

Same thing happens here along the Northern California coast. With El Nino this year, the waves are bigger and more powerful than a typical winter and catch people unaware. There are occasional "sneaker" waves that break on the beach and knock people down. Recently: http://www.mercurynews.com/central-coast/ci_29405514/san-jose-pair-missing-after-being-swept-into http://www.mercurynews.com/central-coast/ci_29405514/san-jos... http://abc7news.com/news/pacifica-man-drowns-trying-to-save-wife-swept-out-by-big-waves/1193987/ http://abc7news.com/news/pacifica-man-drowns-trying-to-save-...

personlurking 11y ago
There was a story from last week, in France. The guy filming is apparently handicapped, but there was a fifth person who entered the scene afterwards and saved all of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSgSMZsMh4A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSgSMZsMh4A Or this one from 2013, in Lisbon (college hazing gone wrong) http://news.sky.com/story/1183112/portugal-five-students-missing-in-sea http://news.sky.com/story/1183112/portugal-five-students-mis...
bootload 11y ago
"There are occasional "sneaker" waves that break on the beach and knock people down." Lost light house keepers at Flannan Isles , 'Eilean Mor', 1900 ~ http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/The-Eilean-Mor-Lighthouse-Mystery/ http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/The-E... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDqhQ9wlQxQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDqhQ9wlQxQ
monk_e_boy 11y ago
Last year some kids went skinny dipping and one never came back to shore.
halviti 11y ago
We have a beach in Iceland that people go to take photos, and tourists get sucked out into the ocean all the time because they ignore the signs, tour guides, and common sense. Just last week there was a lot of fuss in the news about how reckless the tourists are becoming, and then the very next day after the news hype, a tourist was sucked out into the sea and drowned.. and this happens despite there being lots of other people nearby. It's gotten to the point that some tour guides have just stopped going there because people just don't listen to warnings or understand the danger.
rz2k 11y ago
A few weeks ago a couple of people died after BASE jumping off of Bixby Bridge near Big Sur. After the first jumper successfully landed, she was swept out to see by a series of big waves. Caught on the second jumper's GoPro, he followed her down, jettisoned his equipment, then dove into the water to save her. So far only his body has been found.

personlurking 11y ago

There was a story from last week, in France. The guy filming is apparently handicapped, but there was a fifth person who entered the scene afterwards and saved all of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSgSMZsMh4A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSgSMZsMh4A Or this one from 2013, in Lisbon (college hazing gone wrong) http://news.sky.com/story/1183112/portugal-five-students-missing-in-sea http://news.sky.com/story/1183112/portugal-five-students-mis...

bootload 11y ago

"There are occasional "sneaker" waves that break on the beach and knock people down." Lost light house keepers at Flannan Isles , 'Eilean Mor', 1900 ~ http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/The-Eilean-Mor-Lighthouse-Mystery/ http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/The-E... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDqhQ9wlQxQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDqhQ9wlQxQ

monk_e_boy 11y ago

Last year some kids went skinny dipping and one never came back to shore.

halviti 11y ago

We have a beach in Iceland that people go to take photos, and tourists get sucked out into the ocean all the time because they ignore the signs, tour guides, and common sense. Just last week there was a lot of fuss in the news about how reckless the tourists are becoming, and then the very next day after the news hype, a tourist was sucked out into the sea and drowned.. and this happens despite there being lots of other people nearby. It's gotten to the point that some tour guides have just stopped going there because people just don't listen to warnings or understand the danger.

rz2k 11y ago

A few weeks ago a couple of people died after BASE jumping off of Bixby Bridge near Big Sur. After the first jumper successfully landed, she was swept out to see by a series of big waves. Caught on the second jumper's GoPro, he followed her down, jettisoned his equipment, then dove into the water to save her. So far only his body has been found.