ever heard of floatopia? all right. you re going to learn about it tonight. floatopia deflated. local officials say last year s overcrowded spring break event near santa barbara, california convinced them to close down the public beach. and cnn s sarah weissfelt spoke with students and police about how floatopia got out of hand. reporter: it s pretty much a day at the beach. the whole community comes together. we go down, float. people dance and people tan. it started out relatively small scale, about 200 or 300 people. and last year was actually the first year that it kind of boomed with facebook to around 10,000 people. and when i say facebook, i mean an event was created on the social networking site that invitations ended up being sent out throughout california.
ever heard of floatopia? you ll learn about it tonight. floatopia deflated. last year s overcrowded spring break event near santa barbara convinced them to shut down the beach and we spoke to people and police about how it got out of hand. reporter: it s pretty much a day at the beach. the whole community comes together. we go down, float. people dance and people tan. it started out relatively small scale, 200 or 300 people. last year was the first time it boomed with facebook to around 10,000 people and when i say facebook i meaning an event was created on the social networking site that invitations were sent throughout california.