Woman who didn't like to swim, swept out to sea and drowned when she bent down to pick up glasses on beach

Sounds like it might have been a sneaker wave that took her:

Donna Pawlowski did not like to swim but turbulent surf along a Cape Cod beach Sunday pulled her into the ocean where she drowned.

Pawlowski and Barbara Coons, who live in Rexford [New York] and had a time share on the cape, were walking along Race Point Beach in Provincetown early Sunday morning when Coons dropped her glasses.

"Donna reached down to get them and the waves came in and took her away," Mary Jane Hodge of Colchester, Conn., who is related to Pawlowski through marriage, said by phone Monday evening.

"She did not swim. It was a freak accident."

Cape & Islands First Assistant District Attorney Michael Trudeau said boat, air and ground search crews quickly converged on the scene and Pawlowski's body was found about 35 minutes later on a beach near the Race Point Lighthouse. Trudeau said the death appears accidental.

 Source: Albany Times Union