Calgary father dead, five-year-old daughter missing after California wave sweeps them out to sea

Investigators in California say a Calgary man is dead and his five-year-old daughter is missing after the pair was swept off the shoreline by a tall ocean wave on Garrapata State Beach.

The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office says 39-year-old Yuji Hu was with his wife and two children last Friday when an approximately six-metre-tall wave dragged his daughter into the Pacific Ocean.

The office says when Hu and his wife reached for their daughter, they, too, were swept into the water.