Wedge fatalities ID'd

[one_leg]

Wedge fishing fatalities identified.

Pair missing from jetty ID'd
Police say Yi Ni Kwong, 49, of Irvine was fishing in Newport on Tuesday with Sean Shungfei Yeh, 53.

[CatchthatTrout]

They haven't been found yet.........&# 46;.right?

[seanyboi]

Aww man that is really sad. I heard that the waves were getting to 15 feet over there thats crazy

[bones]

I know it's every persons responsibility to keep themselves informed. Especially in an area that has the reputation for big swells but the authorities should close off the jetties when it gets hairy like that. They will never be able to keep the surfers out of the water but the fisherman on the jetties can be controlled and everyone knew the swells were coming.
It's sad that folks died while doing what they love and fishing is not known to be a death defying experience :(
A couple of dudes died last year off of Palos Verdes also doing the same thing. Now my wife is freaked again and told me to stick to the beach :shock:

[Oz]

it sad that it happened to them but i think if u are gonna go on a jetty when the conditions are the way they are u are going @ ya own risk.

[Oz]

Three Young Children Swimming Near The Redondo Pier In Gale Force Winds


It was 7 PM on Wednesday in the Santa Monica Bay as a significant Pacific storm battered the coast. Two days previous, a couple was washed off the rocks at Corona del Mar by a rouge wave. Their bodies have yet to be recovered as they were presumed dead.

Gale force winds battered the old Redondo Pier and pushed huge waves over the Redondo break wall. A photographer shot photos of a sailboat trying desperately to makes it way back to King Harbor taking back and forth in a mixed up miserable ocean.

Gusts to over 40 knots were pushing 10 to 12 foot seas up on the beach as crowds of people gathered to watch the spectacle. 200 yards south of the Redondo pier, there was a scene that was hard to fathom; in fact at first glance, it seemed unreal. But there it was. Three children were in the water, playing and laughing with no adult anywhere in sight. The small girl and two boys looked to be from 6 to 8 years old and they continued to wade further out to sea.

People were watching including a man in a green windbreaker who was upstairs and several hundred yards away from the children. A huge wave crashed upon the beach and sent the three children sprawling. The waves started to carry them out to sea but they got to their feet and laughed and continued to play. Of the onlookers, and there were many, nobody said anything, nobody went down to where the children were, nobody stopped to help.

One person had seen enough after a few minutes and called the Redondo Beach police. "There are three children in the water," he said. "You need to get someone out here right away." The man in the green wind breaker had now made his way down to where the children were and waved them out of the water. They came out for a brief moment but then returned in to the water to play some more. The man, turned his back to the children and walked back to the bike path.

Within minutes of the phone call came a Redondo Beach life guard racing down the beach in his yellow truck. As he approached the children, the man in the green windbreaker returned to where the kids were. The life guard ordered the kids to get the out of the water. The man then yelled at the children to comply.The kids walked up to the bike path with the man as two Redondo Beach police officers approached. The officers spoke with the man and seemingly berated him for several minutes for allowing the children to go in to the sea. The man then walked with the children up the stairs and got into their mini van and drove away.

And as the sun set on the Redondo pier, the winds picked up even more, the waves grew even larger, as three kids drove home safe to wake up to another day on Thursday.

[mii]

i dont mean to sound insensitive but the jettyis the last place those guys should have been. the wedge has been peaking at around 20 ft the past two days and b4 that there were breakers in the mouth of nph at low tide. also, the way the waves bounce off the jetty at wedge can lead to a lot of problems if ur on it. i cant tell you how many times ive been to wedge to feel the ground and jetty shake when the waves break. it wasnt very bright for them to have gone out fishing the jetty the past cpl days so to me, its no surprise this happened. they should have used better judgement.

[mii]

Aww man that is really sad. I heard that the waves were getting to 15 feet over there thats crazy

for the wedge and that area of newport its not surprising. it just has to be the right swell to get that big. ive seen wedge break at over 20 ft but have never been willing to ride it. my buddy nearly died at the wedge a while back. a lot of the ppl that ride wedge usually know what they are doing. its the few that think they can take anything that get really hurt there.

[gwjones00]

I went over there to watch the kooks body surfing on Tuesday and Wendesday. Tuesday and Wednesday were big - wave faces were 15 to 20 foot on the Newport Beach side. Tuesday was consistently over 10 feet, Wednesday had bigger sets (15 to 18 foot faces), but much more time between them.

The two that drowned though were on the Corona del Mar jetty. Surfers on the CdM side of the jetty were surfing head high waves on Tuesday. The waves on the CdM jetty *inside the harbor* were breaking over the top of the jetty on Wednesday.

I have some pics if you want to see the Wedge in action - http://gwjones2006.fotki.com. Two folders there have Wedge photos from Tuesday and Wednesday.

[hbstriker]

I went over there to watch the kooks body surfing on Tuesday and Wendesday.

I really don't see how they are kooks. They are participating in a sport that they love, just like fishing, baseball, football etc. I surf wedge once in a while, it can be fun when conditions are right. And unlike the fisherman, these guys know what they are doing, and UNDERSTAND and RESPECT the ocean, and noone died surfing wedge either this swell. Not trying troll this thread or piss anyone off. Maybe my definition of "kook" is different