SANTA CRUZ — The Santa Cruz County Sheriff-Coroner’s Office has identified a man and a woman who drowned last week on Santa Cruz’s Westside after being swept off the rocks and into Monterey Bay.

Pedro David Guadarrama Ceron, 30, and Emma Nelly Diazleal Lopez, 33, were San Jose residents, according to a Sheriff’s Office spokesperson.

Emergency responders were called around 6:15 p.m. Wednesday for witness reports that two people had been pulled into the water near Mitchell’s Cove at David Way. Rescue swimmers towed the two to a nearby Santa Cruz Harbor Patrol boat before they were taken to the Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor.

Despite lifesaving efforts, neither individual survived.

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