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"A storm brought winds and pushed massive, barreling waves along the Big Sur coastline Friday.\"Massive, like bone breaking,\" said Alex Sanfilippo of Santa Cruz,\u00A0who was watching the waves from Garrapata State Park.Swells pounded bluffs and a high surf warning by the National Weather Service was in effect all day.\"I've been here several times but I've never seen it look like this before,\" said Ron Mammoser,\u00A0who is visiting from Buffalo,\u00A0New York.Friday's storm wasn't the only thing bringing on big waves;\u00A0so were king tides. The State Parks Department said extreme tides make wave watching more dangerous.\"With the king tides, with the full moon we're having, and the previous tides that we've had over the last month and a half, a lot of the sand has been taken out. So the tides are even closer to the edge of the bluffs,\" said Chris Fridrich with the Parks Department.Fridrich said wave watchers should never turn their backs to the ocean, and keep in mind the waves can always get bigger. He said it is also wise to keep your distance when trying to take photographs of the waves.\"Use the zoom, don't try to get to close, because we have had a number of fatalities along the ocean, especially in Monterey and through the Big Sur,\" Fridrich said.At least three tourists died in Big Sur in 2015.Earlier this week, two University of California students went to Bonny Doon Beach north of Santa Cruz to watch the waves when they were swept out to sea. Students Shireen Ahsan, 19, of Palo Alto, and Solaiman Nourzaie, 25, of San Jose, were still missing on Friday.Further north up California's coast, surfer Dan Dafoe was knocked unconscious while he was surfing Wednesday at Rodeo Beach.People who were surfing with Dafoe saw him face-down and tried to bring him to shore when they were hit by a massive wave too. Dafoe slipped away and was not seen again.More high surf and king tides will continue into Saturday."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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