After their boat was found to have crashed on the Palos Verdes shoreline early on Tuesday morning, two men who went fishing Monday night from the San Pedro district of Los Angeles are still unaccounted for.
Around five in the morning on Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Fire Department received a call asking them to look for the two guys, who were expected to return to Cabrillo Beach at midnight.
According to LACFD ocean lifeguard expert Jake Miller, they started looking for the males, who were hoop-net fishing nearby, along the Palos Verdes coast.
Our search began at approximately 5:30 a.m. Here in Palos Verdes, we found the upturned boat after having boats in the area look for them. We then began a shoreline search, sending out persons on foot to look both up and down the vessel’s path.
In Palos Verdes Estates, in south Los Angeles County, the 25-foot boat was discovered flipped and wrecked in a rocky area at the foot of the cliffs between Bluff Cove and Lunada Bay.
According to Miller, search operations persisted using drones in the air and boats and jet skis on the lake. The Redondo Beach Fire Department and the Coast Guard were among the several agencies that helped LACFD in its hunt for the guys.
“Nothing has been found,” Miller stated by Tuesday afternoon. Neither of the two people has been located. He stated that when the search was finished, the Palos Verdes Estates Police will continue their land searches and deal with any unresolved person complaints.
Beaches in Los Angeles County were under a high surf warning on Monday and Tuesday due to waves of 8 to 12 feet and powerful, dangerous rip currents that created perilous water conditions.
“Whenever there are hazardous conditions in the ocean, especially as a lifeguard, we always advise people to check in with any of the local weather, just to know what kind of conditions you’re up against,” Miller stated.
This week, California’s coastline faces the possibility of flooding and dangerously high waves. Three construction workers were thrown into the water after a section of the Santa Cruz wharf collapsed in Northern California on Monday afternoon. A third got it to land by themselves, while two were rescued.
Additionally, authorities said that a man died on a Santa Cruz County beach Monday after he seemed to have been caught by debris that a big wave had washed up.
After being dragged into the water by a strong wave, another man vanished Monday off Monterey County’s Marina State Beach. Off the coast of Pebble Beach in Monterey County, another person vanished. By Tuesday, neither had been located.
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