Life, you suck sometimes.

Ok this is one story that is just crappy all around. 

A family of mom, dad, sister, 16-year-old brother and brother's girlfriend were on the beach in northern California playing fetch with their pet dog on Saturday. The dog went to get the stick when a so-called "sneaker wave", a popular term for a disproportionately large coastal wave that may appear in a wave train and is most often reported along the northwest US coast, washed over the dog, rolling him in the waves.

The brother went to help the dog and grabbed his collar, but the collar came off and the boy was overcome by the rough surf as well. When he saw his son in the water, the father went to grab the boy, but was pulled in by the strong waves. The son was able to pull himself back up to land but, realizing his father was drowning, he went back in after the father. Another couple of passers-by called 911 and stood on the beach with the others, trying to find an opportunity to grab the father and son. But when the mother went in after her husband, she too was pulled into the churning frigid surf. One of the passers-by stopped the 18-year-old daughter from going in after her mother, and when help arrived on the scene, the mother was pulled out of the water and given CPR but it was too late. Dad's body was found further up the beach, and the brother's body was not found and the search ended after it was determined he could not have survived the cold waters any longer.

The girlfriend and the daughter watched all this unfold, as a nice day at the beach and a game of fetch with the pet dog became a horrifying nightmare, and all three family members were lost, one by one.

And, in a bittersweet twist of fate...the dog eventually made it to shore.