Some scary video coming out of Redondo Beach, California shows a sailboat with four people on board get tossed through the pier’s pilings after the disabled boat drifted into the break.
Amazingly all four people managed to escape without serious injury or worse. A full 8-minute version of the video shows the people scramble to reach the beach as the sailboat gets swamped in the surf.
According to reports the incident occurred Saturday just after 7 p.m.
The full video is below:
Updated: April 12, 2017 (Originally published April 3, 2017)
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