By Bill Galluccio
Jan 12, 2021
A large wave caused several sailboats to capsize near the entrance to the Santa Cruz Harbor in Northern California, sending nearly two dozen people into the frigid water, including 12 children.
Within minutes, a Santa Cruz Fire Department lifeguard arrived on a jetski as surfers and boaters worked to pull everybody to safety. Officials were only able to account for seven of the children and put in a county-wide request for more rescue swimmers to aid in the search for the remaining kids. Sail school was coming in, and the white water just tumbled them, and they were just like dominoes flying through the water,