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A man drowned Monday after falling into Thor’s Well, the third such fatality since 2017 at the notoriously dangerous natural feature near Cape Perpetua, just south of Yachats, according to The Lincoln Chronicle and the Yachats Fire Department.
Emergency crews were dispatched around 3:40 p.m. after witnesses reported that the man had been swept into the churning sinkhole by an incoming tide. By the time responders arrived, the victim was already dead inside the 20- to 30-foot-deep hole carved into the basalt along the Pacific Ocean, about 100 yards west of Highway 101.
Image via Seal Rock Fire Department
The U.S. Coast Guard responded with a helicopter
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