SONOMA COUNTY, Calif. — Authorities have identified the man who died after being swept into the ocean on the Sonoma Coast as 43-year-old Shanglong Tang of Sacramento, the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office announced Tuesday.
Deputies were dispatched to Gerstle Cove around 10:41 a.m. Sunday after reports of a water rescue. Officials said two men were standing on rocks when a wave pulled one of them into the sea.
The Sheriff’s Office helicopter, Henry 1, located Tang in the water and airlifted him to shore, where emergency responders attempted CPR. He was pronounced dead at 11:26 a.m.