Officials on Monday identified a woman who died Saturday when the boat she was on capsized off Ocean Beach.
Maribel Merino Bernardo, 57, was aboard the vessel near the end of the San Diego River jetty with multiple migrants when the boat was rolled by a wave in the morning.
“Upon their arrival, the decedent was found to be one of many persons trapped within the capsized boat,” the medical examiner’s office said Monday in an official statement. “She was extricated from the boat and found unresponsive.”
First-responders brought the woman to UC San Diego Medical Center, but she was pronounced dead at the hospital.
The day the boat flipped, a San Diego man shooting video of surfers with his drone captured the moment the boat capsized.
“I just really couldn’t believe that, you know, I was the one that was seeing it and I had a bird’s eye view basically of it,” Korey Green, the drone operator said.
The drone video Korey Green captured Saturday morning shows a suspected human smuggling boat getting smacked by a wave as it approached the Ocean Beach surfline.
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