{"id":297080,"date":"2025-11-17T13:01:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/297080\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T13:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:01:12","slug":"body-of-7-year-old-girl-who-was-swept-out-to-sea-is-found-off-big-sur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/297080\/","title":{"rendered":"Body of 7-year-old girl who was swept out to sea is found off Big Sur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The body of a 7-year-old girl who was swept into the ocean near Big Sur on Friday has been found, the Monterey County Sheriff\u2019s Office said Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>Her father, identified as 39-year-old Yuji Hu of Canada, died while trying to save his daughter from the surf.<\/p>\n<p>Hu, of Calgary, a city 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. <\/p>\n<p>A diver found the girl\u2019s body around 1:20 p.m. Sunday about 100 yards off Garrapata Beach, roughly half a mile north of her last known location. <\/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 a local hospital and treated for mild hypothermia. A 2-year-old child was not hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Officials had initially reported the girl was 5 years old but clarified her age Sunday after speaking with family members.<\/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. The operation was subsequently suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Before the child\u2019s body was found on Sunday, state parks officials kept personnel at the scene \u201cto continue shoreline and accessible-area searches on foot,\u201d the Sheriff\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff\u2019s officials said the family had requested privacy and did not wish to issue a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Times staff writer Rebecca Ellis contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The body of a 7-year-old girl who was swept into the ocean near Big Sur on Friday has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,44223,13097,6461,8329,27117,4281,29086,3,16178,19497,38815,12256,21,19,22,20,25,24,155117,282,6213,155116],"class_list":["post-297080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-big-sur","tag-child","tag-daughter","tag-father","tag-foot","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-monterey-county-sheriff","tag-news","tag-office","tag-sheriff","tag-shoreline","tag-surf","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-various-state-agency","tag-water","tag-wave","tag-yuji-hu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}