Coroner Penelope Schofield concluded the women — 36-year-old Jane Adetoro, 32-year-old Christina Walters and 31-year-old Rebecca Walters — had intended to end their lives.
The women arrived in the city late in the evening by pre-booked taxi from London and were last seen alive on the beach around 3:00 am.
They entered the water in the dark when “sea conditions were adverse” but “they could not swim”, the coroner said.
The coroner said the women “lived very secluded lives”, adding: “We don’t know why they took this course of action or indeed why they chose to do it in Brighton.”
A day earlier, the three sisters, who shared a flat in London, had travelled to visit the area where their mother had drowned herself in a lake 16 years earlier, the court heard.
Police said earlier there was no evidence of criminality and the women had not visited any local businesses or nightclubs.
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