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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Coast Guard officials successful Puerto Rico are informing beachgoers and boaters of ongoing unsafe seas and life-threatening rip currents aft 3 radical were killed connected Sunday during abstracted incidents.
Coast Guard watchstanders astatine Sector San Juan and rescue crews responded to 4 abstracted hunt and rescue cases on the bluish seashore of Puerto Rico connected Sunday, resulting successful 3 fatalities.
"Sunday was a precise bittersweet and hard time for exigency responders and the radical successful Puerto Rico owed to the hazardous sea-state and coastal conditions which resulted successful 3 fatalities during the weekend," Commander of U.S. Coast Guard Sector San Juan Capt. Luis J. Rodríguez said successful a statement. "Our astir heartfelt condolences spell retired to the family, friends and loved ones of the victims, we commune they find spot during this hard time. We caution the nationalist that unsafe maritime, sea-state and hazardous rip existent conditions proceed to impact the bluish and confederate coasts of Puerto Rico."
One idiosyncratic was recovered 75 yards from enactment adjacent Chatarra Beach successful Loiza connected Sunday morning.
A ripped reddish emblem informing of rip existent waves arsenic Category 5 Hurricane Erin approaches successful San Juan, Puerto Rico, connected August 16, 2025. Hurricane Erin connected Saturday strengthened to a "catastrophic" Category 5 tempest arsenic it barrelled towards the Caribbean, with upwind officials informing of imaginable flash floods and landslides. (Photo by Ricardo ARDUENGO / AFP) (Photo by RICARDO ARDUENGO/AFP via Getty Images)
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In Dorado disconnected Kikita Beach, the Coast Guard watchstander got a telephone astir a idiosyncratic successful distress and bystanders were incapable to assistance the idiosyncratic owed to beardown waves. Witnesses mislaid show of the victim. The hunt and betterment with section archetypal responders was ongoing connected Monday.
In Manatí, Puerto Rico connected Sunday afternoon, the Coast Guard responded erstwhile a antheral was seen climbing onto the rocks and going successful the ocean. His assemblage was recovered look down and unresponsive successful the breaking surf and cliff rocks.
HURRICANE ERIN LASHES CARIBBEAN WITH DAMAGING WIND AS US FACES LIFE-THREATENING COASTAL CONDITIONS
Also successful Manatí, the Coast Guard watchstander received a study of 4 surfers successful the h2o successful distress.
"Despite struggling with on-scene conditions, each 4 surfers reportedly made it retired of the h2o safely," according to a quality release.
According to the National Weather Service successful Puerto Rico, some Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands are facing important upwind hazards crossed the coasts.
"A precocious hazard of life-threatening rip currents and precocious surf makes swimming dangerous, particularly for the beaches of bluish Puerto Rico, Culebra, Vieques, and the USVI," the NWS bureau successful Puerto Rico said. "This precocious surf volition besides apt origin insignificant coastal flooding and formation erosion successful susceptible areas. For boaters, hazardous seas are expected, and tiny trade should stay successful port."
A High Surf Advisory is successful spot done Tuesday evening for beaches on the bluish seashore of Puerto Rico with large, breaking waves up to 15 feet.
The unsafe waves are contributing to the coastal flooding threat, which persists done Tuesday night.
This is the 2nd week of life-threatening coastal conditions successful Puerto Rico and the USVI aft Hurricane Erin produced unsafe surf and rip currents.
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