At 18h45, Friday, 12 April, NSRI Lamberts Bay were alerted by Police to a fishing vessel overdue.
Family members of 2 local fishermen, age 35 and 31, had alerted Police with concerns that the fishing vessel had not returned as expected.
NSRI Lamberts Bay investigated, in cooperation with Police, and although it was not clear where the 2 local men, on the open fishing boat, had gone fishing – it was suspected that they had gone fishing South of Lamberts Bay towards Elands Bay.
NSRI Launched rescue craft and initiated a search – a sweeping line search – from inshore up to 15 nautical miles offshore, between Lamberts Bay and Elands Bay.
NSRI duty controllers plotted search patterns.
Telkom Maritime Radio Services broadcast an all ships alert requesting vessels in the area to be on the lookout.
The SA Police Services assisted to gather information and assist in shoreline search efforts.
At around midnight the search was suspended and at first light on Saturday NSRI Lamberts Bay, NSRI St Helena Bay and NSRI Mykonos launched 2 NSRI rescue craft continuing in extensive search efforts in the vicinity of Elands Bay and Lamberts Bay, inshore and to deep sea.
At 19h26, on Saturday evening, NSRI were alerted by Police that a vessel, matching the description of the missing vessel, was located in shallow surf near to Muisbosskerm, on the West Coast.
Police and local community members on the scene assisted to recover the boat, that was found capsized in the surf, and to recover the bodies of the 2 local adult fishermen who were found nearby in shallow surf, sadly deceased.
NSRI attended at the scene.
The bodies of the 2 deceased men were taken into the care of Government Health Forensic Pathology Services.
Police have opened an Inquest docket.
Condolences are conveyed to the families of the deceased fishermen.
Snow Hound
Van der Merwe goes to Paris to watch the Boks take on the Brits at the world cup.
Whilst in Paris, he walks around, gaping and staring at everything – so much so that he walks smack bang into a fire hydrant which hits him so hard on the family jewels that he has to be rushed to hospital where the doctors tell him they have to remove his testicles.
Van goes berserk, he bites and snarls at every one and he won\’t let anybody within 10 metres of him. Eventually they find a South African doctor in the hospital and get him to talk to Van.
He walks up to Van and tells him \”Hey Van, die ouens moet jou knaters uithaal.\”
Van replies \”O, okay, ek dog die bliksems wil my test tickets vat.\”
Jelly Momentum
A boer went to the appliance store sale and found a bargain. \”I would like to buy this TV,\” hetold the salesman. \”Sorry, we don\’t sell to boere,\” the salesman replied. He hurried home, took a shower, changed his clothes and combed his hair, then came back and again told the salesman \”I would like to buy this TV.\” \”Sorry, we don\’t sell to boere,\” the salesman replied. \”Bliksem, he recognized me,\” he thought. So he went for a complete disguise this time, haircut and new color, shaved off the baard, suit and tie, fake glasses, then waited a few days before he again approached the salesman. \”I would like to buy this TV.\” Sorry, we don\’t sell to boere,\” the salesman replied. Frustrated, he exclaimed \”Jislaaik, man! How do you know I\’m a boer?\”\”Because that\’s a microwave,\” the salesman replied.