(CNN) -- The body of a 25-year-old northern California man swept out to sea while trying to photograph the tsunami's arrival from Japan last month has washed ashore about 380 miles away, in Oregon, officials there said Tuesday. 
 
 Dustin Douglas Weber of Klamath, California, was standing on a sand bar near the mouth of the Klamath River in Del Norte County, California, when he was swept away March 11, authorities said. 
 
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 He was with two friends who also were carried off by the surge but were able to return safely to shore, authorities said. 
 
 Weber was identified by a forensic odontologist using dental records, said Eugene Gray, forensic administrator in the Oregon state medical examiner's office. 
 
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 His body was found on the shore south of the Columbia River in Oregon on April 2 by a person walking the beach, Gray told CNN. ||||| The body of a man washed out to sea last month when the tsunami from Japan hit the Northern California coast has been found 330 miles (530 kilometers) north in Oregon near the mouth of the Columbia River, the Oregon State Medical Examiner's Office said Tuesday. 
 
 This February 2009 photo released by Bonny Elliott via NewsChannel 21/KTVZ.com, on Saturday, March 12, 2011, shows Dustin Weber at his mother's house in Bend, Ore. Authorities on Tuesday, April 12, 2011... (Associated Press) 
 
 FILE - This March 13, 2011 photo shows the beach at the mouth of the Klamath River near Requa, Calif., where Dustin Weber, 25, was swept out to sea by a tsunami. A body found three weeks later 330 miles... (Associated Press) 
 
 FILE - This March 13, 2011 photo shows the beach at the mouth of the Klamath River near Requa, Calif., where Dustin Weber, 25, was washed into the sea by the March 11, 2011 tsunami. Authorities on Tuesday,... (Associated Press) 
 
 Dental records showed that the body found April 2 at Fort Stevens State Park by a person walking on the beach is Dustin Douglas Weber, 25, who disappeared three weeks earlier, authorities said. 
 
 "It was just somebody who made a mistake, not knowing what was going on," John Weber, said of his son's death. 
 
 The time the surge was predicted to hit the coast, 7:30 a.m., had passed. 
 
 "As far as they knew, it was all over with," Joe Weber said. "The wave came in and that was it." 
 
 Dustin Weber was the first person killed by a tsunami on the West Coast since 1964, when 11 people in nearby Crescent City, California, died from the surge created by an earthquake in Alaska. 
 
 Thinking the initial tsunami surge had passed and that subsequent waves would be small, Dustin Weber hiked with two new friends from off the reservation down a steep and narrow path that winds through thick brush. It runs past a rock formation said to resemble a Yurok woman with a basket on her back, to a small rocky beach on the north side of the Klamath River, family members have said. His two new friends tried to save him, but couldn't. 
 
 The currents along the shore would usually take a body to the south. But the tsunami would have taken it far out to sea, where it was pushed north by the winds from winter storms that have been unusually numerous and intense this year, said Humboldt State University tsunami expert Lori Dengler. 
 
 The biggest of the tsunami surges measured 8.1 feet (2.5 meters) in the harbor at Crescent City, about 20 miles (30 kilometers) north.
– The body of the sole West Coast victim of last month's tsunami washed ashore on an Oregon beach 383 miles away from where he was swept away in California. The body of Dustin Weber, 25, was discovered earlier this month—22 days after the tsunami triggered by Japan's massive earthquake—and was identified through dental records, CNN reports. The Oregon native had moved to northern California to start a new life just 2 weeks before the tsunami. Weber was standing near the mouth of the Klamath River with two friends when the tsunami swell struck, some time after the main surge had been predicted to hit the California coast. His friends were also swept away but managed to return to shore. "They just couldn't get him," Weber's mother tells AP. "The wave just came so fast and hard. They were soaking wet, both of them. They were lucky they weren't taken also."