The incident unfolded around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday when a surfer spotted an unconscious person in the water at Rodeo Beach and brought him to land, Southern Marin fire Deputy Chief Matt Barnes said.

A fisherman died at Marin County's Rodeo Beach on Tuesday afternoon. A witness said a surfer spotted the man in the water, pulled him out and tried to resuscitate him.

Wong was fishing for mussels on the shoreline of Rodeo Beach when he fell into the water and was swept away by a high surf around 3:30 p.m., according to the sheriff’s office.

The Marin County Sheriff's Office coroner's division said Ho Yu Wong, a 78-year-old man from Oakland, fell into the surf while fishing for mussels on the shoreline Tuesday afternoon.

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One dead, one missing at Rodeo Beach in Marin County 00:22. Officials with the Southern Marin Fire Department on Tuesday confirmed that one person died after being pulled from the water at Rodeo ...

The man, reportedly in his 70s, was perched on the rocks at Rodeo Beach, north of San Francisco, when a large wave swept him into the ocean where he drowned. NEWSLETTERS Emailed Daily.