San Jose man is missing after being swept into ocean at Marin Headlands

A search resumed Monday morning for a San Jose man in his 30s who was swept into the ocean Sunday in the Marin Headlands area off Point Bonita, authorities said.

The man was with two others when they left a trail and climbed down to the rocky shoreline, spokesman Julian Espinoza, a spokesman for the Golden Gate National Park Service. All three became trapped and were swept into the ocean, he said.

Two of the men were able to get back to shore. It all happened around 2:30 p.m.

Rescuers from the U. S. Park Rangers, helicopters from the U.S. Coast Guard and California Highway Patrol, a motorized lifeboat and personnel from the Southern Marin Fire Department all searched for the man until nightfall Sunday, when the search was suspended.

Extreme ocean conditions hampered the search, according to Espinoza.

High surf conditions remain hazardous in the area; over the weekend they were breaking between 23 to 30 feet, according to the National Weather Service. Extremely high tides, also known as King Tides also occurred Monday morning.

T he accident in the Marin Headlands was one of three that happened Sunday along the coast.

About 45 minutes later and 40 miles to the south, two people were swept into the ocean while gathering mussels at Pescadero State Beach, in San Mateo County. The man was rescued, but the woman remained missing after nightfall.

lso Sunday afternoon, 20 people, including 12 children, were pulled from the ocean after a large wave overturned their boats during a sailing class near the Santa Cruz Harbor.

Sunday’s accidents came the weekend after two drownings off the Northern California coast: A man died and two of his children went missing off Blind Beach in Sonoma County, and a 45-year- old San Bernardino County man drowned after falling from the rocks at Portuguese Beach in Mendocino County.