Greg Keragosian, SFGATE
July 3, 2022
The death of a San Pablo father marks the second drowning at Lake Berryessa in six days, the Napa County Sheriff’s Office said.
Napa County Sheriff’s Office / Facebook
A San Pablo man drowned Sunday afternoon while rescuing his son in the water at Lake Berryessa, the second drowning at the lake in six days, the Napa County Sheriff’s Office said.
Marcialo Perez, 35, was unable to swim back to shore after helping his son, who survived, the sheriff’s office said in a Facebook post. Perez’s body was recovered about an hour after he entered the water around 3 p.m
Perez, like 16-year-old victim Demetrio Periat on June 27, drowned in the Oak Shores area of the reservoir. Periatt, a baseball star at Fairfield High School, drowned while retrieving his raft.
Oak Shores is a particularly deadly area of the popular vacation spot. Prior to Perez’s death, Periat was the 11th drowning victim in Lake Berryessa since 2019, KTVU reported, citing records from the sheriff’s office. Perez will be the seventh drowning victim in Oak Shores during that time.
“Reminder, PLEASE wear a life jacket when on a boat or in/near water,” the sheriff’s office’s Facebook post said.
Greg Keragosian is the SFGATE homepage editor. Before joining SFGATE in 2016, he was an associate editor at Yahoo Travel. He was born in San Francisco, grew up in the Los Angeles area, and graduated from the University of Southern California.
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