Melinda Snyman, NSRI St Lucia station commander, said: At 15h07, Saturday, 3 October, NSRI St Lucia duty crew were activated following reports of a drowning in progress at Cape Vidal Beach.
Eyewitness reports indicated that 2 teenagers were in distress in the surf zone appearing to be caught in rip currents.
NSRI rescue swimmers responded directly to the scene and our NSRI rescue vehicle, towing our JetRIB rescue craft, Rescue 40 Bravo, responded.
The SA Police Service was alerted and SISILA EMS ambulance services responded.
On arrival on the scene we found a 14 year old male had been rescued safely to the beach by a female Good Samaritan, from Benoni, who had launched into the water to go to the aid of the 2 teenagers caught in rip currents. She has been commended for rescuing the 14 year old.
Our NSRI rescue craft was launched from the beach and conducted extensive search efforts in and beyond the surf zone for a 16 year old male who had gone missing in the surf zone.
Despite extensive sea and shoreline search efforts there remains no signs of the missing teenager.
NSRI medics attended to the 14 year old on the beach. He was treated on the scene for non-fatal drowning symptoms and handed into the care of SISILA EMS paramedics and transported to hospital by SISILA EMS ambulance in a stable condition. He is expected to make a full recovery.
The rescued teenager and the missing teenager, locals, from Mtubatuba, friends visiting the beach with family, had been swimming together when it appears they were caught in rip currents.
Police have opened an investigation.
Police Search and Rescue – WPDS (Water Policing and Diving Service), assisted by iSimangaliso Wetland Park rangers, are continuing in ongoing search efforts for the missing teenager.
Thoughts and care are with the family of the missing teenager in this difficult time.
Flyswat Briggs
If you believe nobody gives a hoot about you, dare to miss a number of credit card payments and see the love that you will get.
Baked ZD
Van is getting married, but he and his fiancee have never done the deed – in fact he\’s never been with any woman before. He\’s getting more and more nervous as the big day approaches, so he confides in his friend. His friend says \’No worries man. I\’ll come by the honeymoon suite before you guys get there, and I\’ll hide behind the curtain, and I\’ll whisper instructions to you.\’
\’You\’d do that for me?\’
\’Sure thing man!\’
So the wedding day arrives, it was a lovely service (so I was told, I wasn\’t there myself) and Van\’s friend sneaks into the honeymoon suite as promised and hides behind the curtain.
Van and his new wife arrive in the room, get settled on the bed, and things are getting steamy.
But Van is still super nervous and his tummy is bubbling, so he murmers to his wife, \’Listen babe, I\’m just gonna go to the bathroom quick. I think it\’s that wors roll from earlier.\’
\’Sure thing babe.\’
So Van goes into the bathroom, and he\’s taking quite a long time. And his wife is starting to feel the nerves herself. And it\’s getting worse. She can\’t hold it in. But she doesn\’t want to go after he\’s gone and totally ruin the mood. So she looks around and finally finds a shoebox. Quickly, she does her business in the shoebox, and she shoves it under the bed just as Van comes back from the loo.
Van gets back on the bed and they go at it again. But after a minute or so Van smells something not so lekker.
\’What\’s that smell?\’
\’Nothing babe,\’ he wife tries to assure him.
\’No man there\’s definitely something not so lekker in this room!\’VSo Van starts looking around the room, in the corners, in the cupboard, and finally he looks under the bed, and sees the shoebox.
He pull it out, and opens it up, and in horror he shouts \’Sies! Daar\’s kak in hierdie doos!\’
And from behind the curtain his friend yells, \’NEE MAN, DRAAI HAAR OM!\”