Overview
- Deputies Sevak Grigoryan and Christopher Matkin responded around 12:30 p.m. Friday after screams were heard near Carbon Beach in Malibu.
- Body-cam video shows the deputies stripping off gear and swimming roughly 75 feet through foggy surf to reach a man and a woman in distress.
- Using knives, they cut cords tangled around the paragliders’ feet and freed them from heavy equipment.
- The deputies described a tense effort as the exhausted victims initially pulled them underwater before being calmed.
- Firefighters and paramedics assisted on shore, both paragliders are reported OK, and a preliminary LASD assessment points to an ocean fog bank as the likely cause.