8 reported dead after 2 suspected smuggling boats crash at Black's Beach in San Diego

[Zorro]

Source: LA Times

SAN DIEGO — At least eight people died late Saturday night when two suspected smuggling boats overturned in the ocean off Black’s Beach in the Torrey Pines area in what officials called one of the deadliest maritime events in San Diego history.

Officials were alerted to the incident when a Spanish-speaking woman called 911 around 11:30 p.m. asking for help. She said two boats were near Black’s Beach, one with eight people onboard and a second with eight to 10 people. She told dispatchers the one she was on had made it to shore while the other had capsized and people were in the water.

However, emergency crews found both boats capsized and did not find any survivors, said Lifeguard Chief James Gartland, of the San Diego Fire Department.

A lifeguard dispatcher used GPS coordinates from the woman’s cellphone to pinpoint the location to water off of Black Gold Road, south of Torrey Pines Gliderport, San Diego Fire-Rescue officials said.

Read more: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-12/8-reported-dead-after-2-suspected-smuggling-boats-crash-at-blacks-beach-in-san-diego

[LenaBaby61]

1. Isn't that a clothing optional beach?

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[Liberty Belle]

2. Yes. Perhaps they were distracted by the "view."

[2naSalit]

3. That beach...

Yes, clothing optional, is a treacherous little spot in the water. Riptides are common and fierce. I almost drowned there once, caught in a sudden riptide and I was not in up to my shoulders, came up quickly and started to whisk me away as it rolled me over and over. I had to be rescued.

Also a great hang gliding spot.

This is sad.

[Torchlight]

4. Treacherous water, night time, heavy fog.

I'll never be able to imagine the desperation that leads them to take a dark journey of such risk and danger, and that's something I try to remember when I hear disparaging remarks about this week's "them" we're being told who, how, and why to hate for media-profit and political expediencies.