Pacifica Pier News

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Pacifica’s castle tour

docent tours - refreshments - souvenir booklet - music - resident ghost

tickets $25
children 12 & under $10

Saturday, August 7, 2010
Sunday, August 8, 2010

Saturday, August 14, 2010
Sunday, August 15, 2010

tour group departure return
1 9:45 am 11:15 am
2 10:15 am 11:40 pm
3 11:00 am 12:30 pm
4 11:30 am 1:00 pm
5 12:00 pm 1:30 pm
6 12:45 pm 2:15 pm
7 1:15 pm 2:45 pm
8 1:45 pm 3:15 pm

shuttle vans will meet tour groups at Oceana High School upper parking
lot prior to tour departure time

TO PURCHASE TICKETS:
-online: http://pacificahistory.org/castle-tour/
-on phone: 1-800-838-3006
-in person: visit 580 M Crespi Blvd. Tuesday - Friday 9 am - 5 pm
-U.S. Mail: ckecks payable to PHS P.O. Box 752 Pacifica, CA 94044

www.pacificahistory.org
info@pacificahistory.org

(03-18) 22:09 PDT PACIFICA — A man was presumed drowned in the ocean off the coast of Pacifica Thursday hours after his two companions left the beach and didn’t report him missing for 3 1/2-hours, the U.S. Coast Guard reported late Thursday.

The three people were on the beach near the Pacifica Municipal Pier around 2 p.m. Thursday. One of them entered the ocean, but never came out, according to Pacifica Police and the Coast Guard. It’s not clear whether either of the other two people - a man and a woman - entered the water as well, said Lt. j.g. Jeremy Pichette of the Coast Guard.

The two then left the scene. But three witnesses on the beach saw what happened and contacted Pacifica police at 2:17 p.m.

That prompted a massive sea, air and land search-and-rescue effort by the U.S. Coast Guard. The Coast Guard searched 45 square miles of ocean, Pichette said. Pacifica police and firefighters combed the shoreline looking for the body.

At around 6 p.m., the female companion contacted the Coast Guard and identified the missing man. At 8:40 p.m., after six hours of searching, the Coast Guard called off the search, Pichette said. They are contacting the next of kin.

Article At SFGate

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