North Bend, Ore. – The Coast Guard has suspended its search for a father and his young son who were swept into the sea by a wave along an Oregon beach.
The agency, along with Oregon State Police and other responders, searched unsuccessfully Sunday and Monday for 31-year-old Jayson Dean Thomas, of Elmira, and his 3-year-old son.
Thomas and the boy had been walking Sunday on a beach about 2 miles north of Cape Blanco when the wave struck. The boy’s mother saw it happen and called authorities.
Crews in helicopters and search boats and state troopers in all-terrain vehicles found only the man’s jacket and a child carrier he had been wearing in the surf.
OSP spokesman Capt. Bill Fugate says the area where they were swept away is steep and the ocean was rough due to an approaching storm.
