U.S. Park Police and the San Francisco Medical Examiner's office are still working to piece together what happened after a woman's body washed up on Ocean Beach yesterday morning.

According to Golden Gate National Recreation Area spokesperson Alexandra Picavet, at around 6 a.m. Wednesday morning, they received reports of a body that had washed up on the Ocean Beach shore at around Stairwell 15, which is near where JFK Boulevard intersects with Great Highway.

"On initial investigation, the body appears to be an Asian woman in her mid-40s," Picavet says. The woman was dressed in street clothes, not swimming attire, she says.

Since Ocean Beach is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, incidents like this are typically under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service, not the San Francisco Police Department, an SFPD spokesperson says.

"We get notified when something like this happens," says SFPD spokesperson Officer Albie Esparza, "but it's handled by the Park Police."

Park Police and the SF Medical Examiner are currently working to determine the woman's cause of death and her identity, Picavet says. A call to the Medical Examiner's office to see if the woman had been identified had not been returned at publication time.