A part of the Santa Cruz Wharf collapsed Monday afternoon during a high-surf warning, with authorities confirming two people had to be pulled from the water.

While big wave surf spots like Mavericks are going off – stay tuned for more on that coming soon – damage and danger from the oversized swell are wreaking havoc elsewhere. In Santa Cruz, a portion of the surf town’s iconic wharf collapsed into the ocean on Monday,

The wharf reopened to visitors and merchants less than two weeks after a dangerous storm's crashing waves collapsed more than 100 feet of the pier into the ocean.

Two days before Christmas, the Santa Cruz area was hit by the biggest ocean swell in 30 years. The huge waves tore apart a portion of the city's municipal wharf and it has been closed to the public ever since.