Investigators in California say a Calgary man and his seven-year-old daughter have died after they were swept into the Pacific Ocean.

The Monterey County Sheriff's Office said 39-year-old Yuji Hu was with his wife and two children last Friday when an approximately six-metre-tall wave dragged his daughter into the Pacific Ocean.

When Hu and his wife reached for their daughter, they, too, were swept into the water, the office said.

A beach visitor and an off-duty California park officer then pulled Hu out of the ocean and tried to resuscitate him while his wife made it back to the beach on her own.

A statement from the sheriff's office posted on Facebook said a diver located the girl's body on Sunday. The child was initially reported to be five, but family later clarified she was seven.

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