Rescue teams from the National Sea Rescue Institute, police and emergency services conduct search operations after multiple drowning incidents across the Western Cape over the weekend. A deadly weekend on Western Cape waters has left at least one man dead, a teenage boy missing and multiple large-scale rescue operations underway, after a series of drowning incidents stretched from the Atlantic Seaboard to inland dams and lagoons. Rescue teams from the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI), police and emergency services were mobilised across Cape Town and the Overstrand as reports of people in distress triggered extensive air, sea and shoreline searches.
At 4.38pm on Sunday, NSRI Bakoven and the City of Cape Town’s water rescue network were activated following reports of a drowning in progress at Cosy Bay, Oudekraal, between Bakoven and Llandudno. NSRI Bakoven station commander Bevan Geyser said eyewitnesses reported that an unidentified man entered the water before appearing to get into difficulties. “On arrival on the scene NSRI rescue swimmers entered the water conducting free-dive search efforts for an unidentified male reported by eyewitnesses to have entered the water and who appeared to get into difficulties before disappearing under water,” Geyser said. He said rescue swimmers from NSRI Bakoven, Hout Bay and Table Bay were deployed, along with rescue craft, City lifeguards, emergency medical services, a drone unit and police.
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