Search for body of drowned boy continues in Mexico

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When Jerry Colunga saw his 11-year-old son struggling in the water off Mal Paso, in Baja California, he rushed into the surf and started to swim toward him. The boy was 60 or 70 yards out, dog-paddling in surf that had suddenly grown ferocious, report H.G. Reza and Christopher Goffard.

As he fought to reach his son, Colunga saw a fishing boat approach the boy, almost close enough, he thought, to rescue him. But a series of waves crashed into the boat and pitched it into the air. By the time the fishermen had pulled Colunga aboard, his only child -- Paul Maximiliano Gomez -- had disappeared.

In the 17 days since the Aug. 22 drowning, Colunga, a mechanic with the Orange County Fire Authority, has been camped with his wife and other family members on this scenic beach about 35 miles south of Tijuana in hopes of finding Paul’s body.

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