Today, Wednesday Feb. 19, San Diego lifeguards in Ocean Beach responded to a report that a surfer saw a body in the ocean near the OB Pier around 7:30 a.m.
Several lifeguard vehicles and a helicopter responded but the initial search was called off just before 9 a.m. due to weather conditions. Lifeguards turned the search over to dive teams.
The body could be that of a missing 40-year-old kayaker from Arizona who has been missing since last Friday while on the water near Mission Beach. Danny Marron’s snapped-in-half kayak washed ashore but Marron was not located, despite a three-day search that the U.S. Coast Guard called off on Monday.
There was no presumption that the body found Wednesday was Marron’s.
A surfer on the water that day described a shift in wave heights that would have been difficult to endure. “The surf was relatively small, maybe waist high, chest high, and then all of a sudden, within two to three, it was well overhead, double overhead,” the surfer who goes by “Wolfie” said. “From, say, maybe three foot to, like, eight foot.” 7SanDiego
Danny Marron is reportedly an experienced kayaker, and also a pastor, professor, father and husband, who knew the waterways around San Diego ‘like the back of his hand,’ said his wife.
Marron, a professor of psychology from Yuma, Arizona, set off on Valentine’s Day for a “typical paddle” on an outrigger kayak but failed to return home. And alarm bells were raised Friday when Marron’s brand-new OC1 kayak was found washed up and broken in two close to the jetty, close to the entrance channel of Mission Bay, according to his wife.
“He paddled this route, this was like the back of his hand, he did this my daughter’s whole life”, according to his wife Dr. Eryka Arizaga, who works alongside her husband at Arizona Western College. In addition to his academic work, Marron was also a youth ministry pastor.
“We are looking for those three items for Danny, first and foremost, and his paddle and his waterproof pouch with his phone”, she told Fox5SanDiego Monday.
The missing kayaker had competed as an outrigger paddler in races that involved crossing the Catalina Channel and paddling from Molokai to Maui, in Hawaii. msn
Latest: Body found —
The San Diego Fire-Rescue Department says it found a body in the Ocean Beach area Wednesday afternoon.
According to an SDFD spokesperson, lifeguards initially searched for a body after receiving a report Wednesday morning; however, that search concluded by 8:45 a.m.
By 2 p.m., SDFD confirmed to ABC 10News that a body was located near Abbott Street, in the area of Cape May Avenue Beach.
SDFD had recently suspended a search for a missing kayaker slightly north of where this body was found. Family members identified the kayaker as Danny Marron, and he was last seen on his outrigger kayak on Friday, Feb. 14.
Search crews found the kayak the afternoon of Valentine’s Day overturned and damaged about 500 yards west of the Mission Bay Entrance Channel, per the U.S. Coast Guard.
10news https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/lifeguards-discover-body-in-ocean-beach
I paddle kayak on the Kona coast of the Big Island almost daily. Yesterday I came close to a pod of humpback whales. My heart goes out to Marron’s family. So many things could have happened, we may never know. There is solice in the fact that he passed doing something that he loved. Aloha and peace be with you.
Hope his family can find some closure.
Btw, all news sources are repeating erroneous information. In case you want to update your article.
He was on a canoe (outrigger to be specific) not a kayak.
He was 47 not 40
Saturday, Feb. 22 U-T:
SAN DIEGO – The county Medical Examiner’s Office announced Friday they had identified a body found near Ocean Beach Pier earlier this week as the body of a kayaker who disappeared out of Mission Bay.
Investigators said Daniel Marron III was found dead Wednesday by San Diego Fire-Rescue lifeguards after a surfer spotted a corpse in the waves earlier that morning.