{"id":56226,"date":"2025-11-17T00:09:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T00:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/56226\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T00:09:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T00:09:16","slug":"father-killed-in-surf-near-big-sur-is-identified-daughter-is-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/56226\/","title":{"rendered":"Father killed in surf near Big Sur is identified; daughter is missing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The father who was killed after trying to save his 5-year-old daughter from the surf near Big Sur on Friday has been identified as 39-year-old Yuji Hu of Canada, the Monterey County Sheriff\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n<p>Hu, of Calgary, a province in Alberta, was pulled from the water by another beachgoer  and an off-duty California State Parks peace officer, and was pronounced dead at a local hospital. His daughter  remains missing, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The Sheriff\u2019s Office said Hu entered the water after his daughter was \u201cswept off the shoreline by waves estimated to be 15-20 feet high.\u201d The waves were the result of winds of up to 70 mph that were part of the same weather system that <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-11-15\/storm-of-season-pounds-southern-california-bringing-mudslides-flooding\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">drenched the Los Angeles region<\/a> this weekend, the National Weather Service said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred at Garrapata  Beach, along Highway 1 just north of  Rocky Point Restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>The child\u2019s mother also entered the water in an attempt to assist. She was able to make it back to shore, and was also transported to the local hospital and treated for mild hypothermia. A 2-year-old child was not hurt.<\/p>\n<p>A large-scale search effort for the girl had resumed Saturday morning and continued through sunset \u2014 a joint effort led by the county Sheriff\u2019s Office with help from various state agencies and the U.S. Coast Guard. However, the operation has since been suspended. <\/p>\n<p>State parks officials were to maintain personnel on scene \u201cto continue shoreline and accessible-area searches on foot\u201d on Sunday, the Sheriff\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n<p>The Sheriff\u2019s Office said the family has requested privacy and did not wish to issue a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The father who was killed after trying to save his 5-year-old daughter from the surf near Big Sur&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5097,7,9,8,3409,9342,6314,2641,63,34314,346,2637,34800,22999,34801,646,18060,34799],"class_list":{"0":"post-56226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-big-sur","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-california-headlines","11":"tag-california-news","12":"tag-child","13":"tag-daughter","14":"tag-father","15":"tag-foot","16":"tag-los-angeles-times","17":"tag-monterey-county-sheriff","18":"tag-office","19":"tag-sheriff","20":"tag-shoreline","21":"tag-surf","22":"tag-various-state-agency","23":"tag-water","24":"tag-wave","25":"tag-yuji-hu"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}