SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — San Diego search and rescue teams and the Coast Guard were busy searching the Pacific Ocean off of San Diego Monday morning after someone reported seeing a body wash ashore.
It was first reported just before 6 a.m. Monday that a body had washed up on shore near Bermuda Avenue at Sunset Cliffs in Point Loma.
When San Diego lifeguards arrived to Sunset Cliffs, they report they did not find the body at first and believed it had washed back into the ocean. That search continued for about 30 minutes until the U.S. Coast Guard took over the search from the water.
While assisting with land support, lifeguards spotted the body near the shoreline just before 8 a.m. and called for additional resources to help locate and bring it to shore.
San Diego police report the person has been identified as a man in his late 40s, and that the body had “obvious signs of death” and that rigor mortis had set in.
The San Diego County Medical Examiner is investigating the cause of death and is working to identify the man. The San Diego Police Department is also investigating.
