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The U.S. Coast Guard launched a search Friday for a man swept out to sea while attempting to take photos of tsunami waves from the California shoreline, officials said.
The man went missing near the mouth of the Klamath River in northern California, not far from a town which so far is the worst hit by the tsunami triggered by a massive earthquake in Japan.
"A man was swept out to sea by a wave after he and two friends reportedly traveled to the shoreline to take photos of the incoming tsunami waves," the U.S. Coast Guard said in a statement.
"Two of the men were able to get back to shore and one is still unaccounted for. The Coast Guard is currently searching for the man with MH-65C Dolphin helicopters from Air Station Humboldt Bay," it added.
The incident happened not far from Crescent City, where three dozen boats were crushed and thrown on top of one another, in the worst tsunami damage so far reported along the U.S. West Coast.
Some 7,000 people were evacuated from the harbor area in Crescent City, 350 miles north of San Francisco, said emergency services manager Cindy Henderson.
"We have at least 35 boats that have been crushed. We have boats on top of other boats," she told AFP, adding that their last surge had registered 8.1 feet (2.5 meters) — although it had not yet breached the sides of the harbor.
"Thankfully we're almost at low tide. We're expected to get even higher," she said, adding that, if the water does spill out of the harbor, "those boats will become battering rams once it surges."
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