Just before 2:00pm Sunday, September 27th, the Oregon State Police and emergency personnel responded to a person who fell from a cliff, into the ocean, at Devil’s Cauldron trail in Oswald West State Park.
Upon arrival, authorities preliminary investigation revealed two people had walked down the Devil’s Cauldron trail to take a photograph at a cliff side viewpoint.
43 year old Steven Gastelum of Seaside, climbed a tree on the cliff’s edge to pose for a photograph. A limb broke, on the tree, causing him to fall approximately 100 feet into the ocean.
A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter and crews from Nehalem Bay Fire Department on jet skis assisted in locating Gastelum and brought him to shore.
Gastelum was transported to Tillamook Regional Medical Center by ambulance where he was pronounced deceased.
