An undergraduate student at UC Santa Cruz died last week after jumping from a cliff into the ocean, according to police and the university.
The Santa Cruz Police Department said someone called around 2:15 p.m. Friday after finding a body on Its Beach, a sandy stretch beneath the cliffs at Lighthouse Field State Beach in Santa Cruz. The Santa Cruz County Coroner did not release the victim’s name as of Monday.
The body was found five days after a swimmer went missing near 701 West Cliff Drive, where a lighthouse and surfing museum perch on a bluff above the ocean near Steamer Lane, an iconic surfing location…