Kauai police identify Baltimore woman swept out to sea
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Kauai police identified today a 22-year-old Baltimore woman who was swept out to sea off Anini Beach on Kauai on Monday as Destiny Marbury.
The Kauai Fire Department suspended a four-day multi-agency search for Marbury this afternoon.
Since Monday night, responders have scanned more than 545 square miles of water along Kauai’s north shore with no sign of Marbury.
Marbury became distressed at about 6 p.m. Monday after entering the water at the north end of the beach. The Coast Guard said she yelled for help about 300 yards from shore, and her friend, a 37-year-old Kapaa man, jumped into the water, but he got caught in a rip current and was rescued by a good Samaritan and a firefighter.
A high surf warning was in effect for Kauai at the time.
The Coast Guard began searching Monday night and deployed an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter, an HC-130 plane and the cutter Kittiwake. The Coast Guard ended its search Wednesday night.
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The deep channels on the Anini Beach flats generate dangerous rip currents whenever big winter surf breaks on the reef. Why? Simple reason, all that water coming in with the breaking waves has to get back out somehow to sea somehow. I was warned as a child of the danger there a long, long time ago and heeded the danger risk. My sincere condolences to family and friends of their lost.
Don’t fight a rip current. Just stay afloat and you’ll get to a place where the current will have no effects. Happens to me all the time while body surfing.