Two men who were repairing buoys off the coast of Santa Rosa Island in May 1926 spent an hour in the water wondering if they would ever step on dry land again. “Heavy seas commenced to break around the buoy, tossing the rowboat in which the two men were working about like a chip.
“Suddenly an unusually heavy comber broke directly over the boat, turning it completely over. The two occupants were thrown into the sea, but managed to swim to the upturned boat and clung to the keel, buffeted by the waves, and caught in a strong current, were being swept out to sea, when the coast patrol cutter … which happened along after the two men had been in the water for almost an hour.” – Santa Barbara Daily News, May 4, 1926
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