A 24-year-old visitor died on Saturday after being swept away under high surf at the South Point Cliff Dive. Locals say they warned visitors not to go in.
All you have to do is have common sense. You see rough waters stay out. The locals telling you not to go, stay out. At that point if you ignore all the visual signs, verbal signs, and written signs, you have made the choice to put your life at risk. It’s not the states fault, it’s the person making the choice where responsibility lies.
Actually it is not a lot at the lift. But it is a brutal way to go and that get's peoples' attention. Most deaths on the shoreline occur are fishermen, people who pick Opihi , a type of shellfish clings to the rocks and are located on rocks near the water. Occasionally a visitor will get too close to a raging surf and get hit with a wave and dragged out to sea. These incidents involve people right on the shoreline and their activities places them on a shoreline covered in lava rock. People are washed into the ocean by a big wave or fall in the ocean since the lava rocks are wet and slippery. There are very strong currents and they get caught in them and the ones who have a chance to get back on land are hampered by the huge amount of lava rock. There was one incident near that area where an older man was fishing and fell into the ocean and he got caught in the current and as he was being swept sway it was so fast that they only could watch him disappear.
Time & time again, us locals have asked for the visitors bureau to have videos on the airplane of the dangers our ocean & land can pose . Here we are once again. A life lost. My condolences to the families & friends. Sad!!
The budget for the HTA is hundreds of millions of dollars. Yet, no visitor education? I also believe people will make their choices regardless and that accidents will happen on land, in the air, and in the ocean.
Yeah the HTA is a total waste of millions of our tax money each year. Even the legislature was smart enough to finally cut their funding but Governor UN Green still gave them $60 million. The state does nothing to support Ag or any other industry. They paid HTA to go to Europe like that was necessary. We need to organize alternatives and vote. Only 40% of registered voters voted last election everyone just accepts our state government as corrupt.
I was just there last week and the locals told me it wasn’t the best day and that someone had died a week before. As bummed as I was to not be able to jump I know I made the right decision to walk away.
No one can control the ocean or the people that go in, but you can be warned. People should listen to locals about the waters no matter where you are. Life saving. Put the phones down, listen, and enjoy where you are 🙏 ❤
I just got back from the Big Island and there was days I went in the water and some days I would not step a foot in the water based on the surf. It is really common sense especially when the locals say don't go in the water.
I’m going to the big island in a couple weeks and I just recently heard about this spot. My first thought when I looked at it was you could easily get swept away. I’ll get close enough to the edge to take a peek, but that’s as far as I’m going.
Not sure where you are from, but here in Puna it's not the visitors burning out cars and leaving washers and dryers all over the f*cking jungle. It's da locals🤙🏼
I wonder how/where the victim was found. How far out they got pulled. Did they die because they just couldn't tread til help arrived? Or because there were crashing waves smashing them?
Many years ago before there were many lifeguards, I almost died at Sandy Beach, Oahu, during a Kona storm. Many years later, I almost died rafting in Colorado. In both cases, luck and my ability to swim saved me.Along the way I've saved two people from drowning.
I’ve done this jump a bunch of times. It is also shark infested with fishermen fishing right next to u when u jump lol. Sorry for your loss def not worth it!
Ive seen some BIIIIG sharks here.. Word of advice, Hawaiian waters are NOTHING like anywhere else in the world... You can be a badass swimmer in Ca or even Florida, but those onshore breaks and those crazy currents will get you.. I saved a few people over in Kahena Black sands in Puna a few times.. I never swim without fins..ever!!
Tourist don’t listen to locals, I was on Kauai at the top of the water fall at Waimea Canyon and this tourist was hanging off a tree over hanging the cliff side and I told him it wasn’t a good idea he just snubbed me & told another tourist not to go under a water fall on Maui that a person had died under the previous day from a rock that fell over the water fall and they just ran past us, never will help a tourist again don’t need their attitude & don’t feel sorry anymore they don’t listen
Sea charm The seas own children Do not understand. They know But that the sea is strong Like GODS hand. They know But that the sea wind is sweet Like GODS Breath, and that the sea holds a wide, deep death. Langston Hughes
As a young haole kid I lived on the big island for a few months and I worked for an orchard management company. I would spend weeks simply hand carrying bags of fertilizer to macadamia nut trees one by one. I thought that kicked my butt. Then I hooked up with this beautiful girl but she did not tell me that she had just broken up with her boyfriend who was a total Hawaiian local. That was a bad move on my part. They almost got me and I hid out for days before leaving the island and never coming back. 😂 she was worth it!
