KLAMATH, Calif. (AP) — Rescue teams have called off the search for a man who was swept out to sea by the powerful tsunami surges near Crescent City.

Dustin Weber, 25, was swept out to sea at the mouth of the Klamath River by a tsunami surge generated thousands of miles away by the earthquake off Japan’s coast.

Rescuers were unable to reach him Friday and called off their efforts; he is presumed dead, though his body has not been found

Leaving his teenage drug abuse behind in Oregon, Weber was seeking a new beginning along California’s rugged far northern coast, happy to be in the land of his mother’s heritage, the Yurok Tribe.

 His would be the first death of a person on the West Coast by a tsunami since 1964, when 11 people in nearby Crescent City died from the surge created by an earthquake in Alaska.