An Oregon man died near Depoe Bay on Wednesday after he was swept out to sea by a wave during an unusually high tide — or “king tide”, police said.
He is the second person to …
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An Oregon man died near Depoe Bay on Wednesday after he was swept out to sea by a wave during an unusually high tide — or “king tide”, police said.
He is the second person to die in Oregon during a king tide in the past month.
Hong B. Su, 45, of Happy Valley, was fishing on the rocks near the shoreline at Otter Crest Loop when a sudden wave washed him out to sea around 2 p.m., Oregon State Police spokesperson Kyle Kennedy said in a statement.
The U.S. Coast Guard and Oregon State Police arrived at the scene and tried to rescue him, but he was declared dead shortly after the U.S. Coast Guard recovered him, Kennedy said.
He was in the water for about 39 minutes, Kennedy said.
On Dec. 15 Joseph Neill, a photographer from North Bend, went missing while trying to photograph a king tide near Jordan Point, across the bay from North Bend, police said. His body was recovered three weeks later.
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