Search efforts continue Monday afternoon for a man who has been missing after being swept into the ocean in the coastline of California.

On Monday, the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office released the identity of the man who has been missing since Saturday, Nov. 22, when he and two other women were "swept off the rocks and into the ocean" at Soberanes Point within Garrapata State Park.

The man was identified as 35-year-old Spc. Amanpreet Thind, a U.S. Army Specialist from New Jersey, authorities said in a statement.

"The missing person from Saturday’s incident at Garrapata State Park is Spc. Amanpreet Thind, a U.S. Army Soldier, and student at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center," said Col. Christy L. Whitfield, Commandant at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Langua

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