Two people are dead and a woman is hospitalized after a ‘giant wave’ swept tourists out to sea from the Hawaii shoreline.
Susie Jett, 72, from Oklahoma , was visiting Oahu, Hawaii, along with her daughter Laura Rich, 41, when they went to the beach on October 14, according to McClatchy News . There, a giant wave grabbed them and pulled them into the ocean .
“They’re in paradise, they’re on this beautiful Hawaiian beach. It is one of the most beautiful places on Earth and all of sudden, boom, within an instant, this giant wave came over and their loved one is gone,” Jessica Lani Rich, the president and CEO of Visitor Aloha Society of Hawaii, told the KHON .
The waves were between six to eight feet at the time.
Brian Kunic, 63, from Hollister, California, was also along the beach and pulled out with the wave, according to KSBW . He died in the incident along with Susie Jett, who passed away at the hospital after being rescued.
Laura Rich was rescued from the water after about 15 minutes and rushed to the hospital.