UPDATE at 10:45 a.m. Monday: Police have identified the missing man as Jayson Dean Thomas, 31, of Elmira, near Eugene. Police have not made public the name of his 3-year-old son. The U.S. Coast Guard's search for the two is ongoing.



The U.S. Coast Guard said the wife and mother of the pair alerted authorities at 12:58 p.m. Sunday after she saw them swept out to sea. They were swept away on a beach near Floras Lake in Curry County on the southern part of the Oregon Coast between Bandon and Port Orford.

According to a release from Oregon State Police, the two were were on an area of the beach with a steep angle to the water when they were pulled away by a wave. The water was rough at the time of the incident.

The Coast Guard searched by air using two helicopters and by water using a 47-foot motor lifeboat while Oregon State Police troopers and other first responders "began scouring the beach using ATVs."

The search on shore ended at around 6 p.m. but Coast Guard continued their search of water and nearby ground into the night.

-- Lizzy Acker

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