Two made it back to shore on their own and two others were rescued by emergency crews, the Coast Guard said.Įarlier, people in Hawaii and the West Coast held their breath as the wave sped towards them, and breathed a sigh of relief as the wave caused relatively little damage.Īt least tens of thousands of people were evacuated and there were reports of fighting at gas stations as people fuel up their cars to move inland in Hawaii. Despite a 250-square-mile search with multiple helicopters and a lifeboat that lasted more than seven hours, the man was not found, officials said.įour other men in Oregon were swept off a beach in Brookings, Ore. The Coast Guard began searching for the man after his two friends escaped the wave and called 911 shortly after 10 a.m. casualty of the wave that raced across the Pacific at 500 mph threatening to strike with waves as high as 9 feet high. The missing man, who went missing near the Klamath River near the Oregon border, was the only reported U.S. March 11, 2011— - The Coast Guard has suspended its search for a man reported washed out to sea after he and two friends went to the California coast to photograph the tsunami wave spawned by the Japanese earthquake, officials said.
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