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Rip Current — San Diego County Coastal Areas, California
May 29, 2014 · NOAA Storm Events record
Direct deaths
2
Direct injuries
0
Property damage
—
Area
San Diego County Coastal Areas
Event narrative (NOAA)
Lifeguards started a mass rescue when seven people got caught in a rip current at the northern end of Moonlight Beach around 1310 PST on the 29th, according to Encinitas Fire officials. Five students found a Guatemalan man and his nephew unconscious and kept them afloat until lifeguards arrived to pull them to shore where they were taken to a local hospital. Both eventually died, the man on June 2 and the nephew June 14. The five students were unharmed.
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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.