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DANGER HIGH SURF IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
The surf is extreme this week," said Newport Beach Fire Department spokeswoman Jennifer Schulz.
"It's not just the size of the waves," Schulz said, "it's also creating really strong currents."
The Wedge remains open to those who wish to enter the water.
Also Friday, San Clemente closed most of its 1,200-foot-long fishing pier this afternoon after heavy surf knocked a wooden crossbeam into the ocean.
"We cleared everybody out of the water," said Blake Anderson, a marine-safety officer. Lifeguards monitored the beam as it drifted north of the pier and toward the beach. When it came ashore at Lifeguard Tower 4, near the Corto Lane railroad crossing, a lifeguard Jeep towed it off the beach.
Meanwhile, sheriff's deputies and lifeguards closed most of the pier at 2:35 p.m. as a precaution, removing about 200 people, Anderson said.
The closure is in effect until further notice. Visitors can walk only to a point about halfway between Fisherman's restaurant and Lifeguard Tower Zero. The closure meant shutting down a city concession stand at the end of the pier.
Waves with faces 6 to 8 feet high were crashing into the pier, a few with 10-foot faces, lifeguards reported. Once the crossbeam came ashore, lifeguards reopened the water to surfing on the north side of the pier.
Anderson said he could not estimate the beam's size or weight, but an all-terrain vehicle was unable to move it off the beach, so lifeguards had to get a Jeep.
Unfortunately after the above video clip was made a body surfer was killed in Newport Beach at The Wedge.
FRIDAY AT THE WEDGE IN NEWPORT BEACH, CA.
Monte Valentin, 50, died at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian after he was slammed into the rocks by strong current and massive waves, officials said.
About 300 people were on the sand Saturday morning watching about a dozen bodysurfers braving the still large waves of about 20 feet high.
Lifeguard presence was heavy, with three guards at the water's edge waiting with fins and buoys. A lifeguard boat arrived about 9 a.m.
Valentin was pulled from waves about 1 p.m. Friday.
He had been body surfing near the Wedge when a set of waves up to 20 feet high came rolling through, throwing the surfer into the rocks, Schulz said.
Newport Beach lifeguards pulled the badly injured surfer into a lifeguard boat and took him to shore.
My family went to watch the waves both in Newport Beach and Huntington Beach and the size and sounds of these waves is something we have never seen.
DANGER HIGH SURF IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
The surf is extreme this week," said Newport Beach Fire Department spokeswoman Jennifer Schulz.
"It's not just the size of the waves," Schulz said, "it's also creating really strong currents."
The Wedge remains open to those who wish to enter the water.
Also Friday, San Clemente closed most of its 1,200-foot-long fishing pier this afternoon after heavy surf knocked a wooden crossbeam into the ocean.
"We cleared everybody out of the water," said Blake Anderson, a marine-safety officer. Lifeguards monitored the beam as it drifted north of the pier and toward the beach. When it came ashore at Lifeguard Tower 4, near the Corto Lane railroad crossing, a lifeguard Jeep towed it off the beach.
Meanwhile, sheriff's deputies and lifeguards closed most of the pier at 2:35 p.m. as a precaution, removing about 200 people, Anderson said.
The closure is in effect until further notice. Visitors can walk only to a point about halfway between Fisherman's restaurant and Lifeguard Tower Zero. The closure meant shutting down a city concession stand at the end of the pier.
Waves with faces 6 to 8 feet high were crashing into the pier, a few with 10-foot faces, lifeguards reported. Once the crossbeam came ashore, lifeguards reopened the water to surfing on the north side of the pier.
Anderson said he could not estimate the beam's size or weight, but an all-terrain vehicle was unable to move it off the beach, so lifeguards had to get a Jeep.
Unfortunately after the above video clip was made a body surfer was killed in Newport Beach at The Wedge.
FRIDAY AT THE WEDGE IN NEWPORT BEACH, CA.
Monte Valentin, 50, died at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian after he was slammed into the rocks by strong current and massive waves, officials said.
About 300 people were on the sand Saturday morning watching about a dozen bodysurfers braving the still large waves of about 20 feet high.
Lifeguard presence was heavy, with three guards at the water's edge waiting with fins and buoys. A lifeguard boat arrived about 9 a.m.
Valentin was pulled from waves about 1 p.m. Friday.
He had been body surfing near the Wedge when a set of waves up to 20 feet high came rolling through, throwing the surfer into the rocks, Schulz said.
Newport Beach lifeguards pulled the badly injured surfer into a lifeguard boat and took him to shore.
My family went to watch the waves both in Newport Beach and Huntington Beach and the size and sounds of these waves is something we have never seen.
