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What Every California Family Needs to Know in the First Days After a Beach Drowning If you are reading this page, someone you love may have been pulled into the Pacific Ocean at Santa Cruz and not come back. We are sorry. There is no word that fixes that, and we will not pretend there is. What we can do is tell you what California law actually says about what happens next, because what happens in the next six months will determine whether your family preserves every legal right it has, or quietly loses the ones it did not know existed. On or about June 16, 2026, two college students, Mahial Sran and Harshita Nair, were reportedly swept into the ocean at a Santa Cruz beach and died. The original news article is incomplete, and the specific beach, the surf conditions at the time, whether warning signs were posted, and whether lifeguards were on duty have not been independently confirmed. We are publishing this page knowing that the facts are still emerging, and we will update it as the Santa Cruz Police Department, the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office, the California Department of Parks and Recreation, and the coroner's office…