Woman Rescued at Sea After Riptides Captured Her in the Night

MARINA DEL REY- On Sept 26, Khosrow (Koz) Khosravani embarked on his first attempt to sail outside the Marina Del Rey harbor with three of his friends on his recent purchase, a 1982 Catalina 25 American trailerable sailboat. While traveling north to Paradise Cove in Malibu, Khosravani spotted a pod of dolphins and followed them west in excitement. However, what he found next was shocking.   “Suddenly, I saw the hand probably 1000 feet away,” said Khosravani. “It could barely wave at us; the person had no power.”   According to the L.A. County Rescue Boat Captain who responded to Khosravani’s “mayday” request, the woman had been floating in the Santa Monica Bay for over 12 hours. She had gone down to the ocean the night before, around midnight, to swim but was engulfed in the riptides and spent the next twelve-plus hours floating out at sea before Khosravani discovered her.   “I went towards what I thought I saw was a human hand,” explained Khosravani. “I wasn’t really sure. Then there was really no movement, but as I got closer, the hand was there again, barely waving.”   Khosravani recently moved to Marina Del Rey from Irvine. Moving to a sailing town nudged him towards buying his...