Police divers (WPDS – Water Policing and Diving Services) are continuing in ongoing search efforts for a local teenager missing at Bakoven.
During the early hours of Saturday morning, 27 September, WC Government Health EMS Metro Control, NSRI EOC (Emergency Operations Centre), the SA Police Services, Police WPDS (Water Policing and Diving Services), CoCT (City of Cape Town) Law Enforcement and NSRI Bakoven duty controllers, were alerted to a teenager reported to be missing at Bakoven rocks, suspected to may be missing in the water, where a group of young adults had been on the rocks, at Bakoven, where an 18 year old male, from Delft, a member of the group, had gone missing.
Shoreline patrols and investigations along rocks and in the area around Bakoven revealed no signs of the teenager where it became increasingly evident that he may have slipped off rocks into the water during the incoming high tide.
The SA Police Services, Police divers (WPDS), CoCT Law Enforcement, EMS Metro Rescue, and an EMS Metro Rescue drone unit, and NSRI Bakoven rescue swimmers, attended at the scene conducting extensive search efforts, supported by the NSRI Bakoven rescue craft Gemini Legend that was launched to assist in the search.
Despite extensive air, sea and shoreline search efforts there remains no signs of the missing teenager.
Police have opened an investigation.
Search efforts are ongoing.
Thoughts, care and compassion are with family and friends of the missing teenager in this difficult time.
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Fun South African Fact: South African Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the world’s first heart transplant on 3 December 1967 at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town. The groundbreaking surgery was carried out on Louis Washkansky and Dr. Barnard was assisted by a large and exceptional team of surgeons, nurses and technicians. One of Dr. Barnard’s assistants was Hamilton Naki, a black laboratory assistant who had worked previously as a gardener and went on to work in the animal laboratory at the University of Cape Town. He had assisted Dr Barnard with research leading to the transplant. In the apartheid days, Naki had no access to higher education due to his race. Despite being unable to access formal training, he learned from and assisted university researchers and went on to do unbelievable work.
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