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Drowning on Table Mountain

Condolences are conveyed to family and friends of a man sadly deceased in what appears to have been a drowning accident in a Table Mountain dam.

Chris Westcott, NSRI Hout Bay coxswain, said: At 12h46, Sunday, 1 February, NSRI EOC (Emergency Operations Centre) were alerted by Cape Town Fire and Rescue Services Control following reports of a drowning in progress at De Villiers Dam, Constantia Nek.

NSRI Hout Bay rescue swimmers, Cape Town Fire and Rescue Services rescue divers, the SA Police Services, WC Government Health EMS rescue squad and a EMS Metro Rescue Drone Unit and TMNP (Table Mountain National Park) rangers responded.

NSRI alerted Police WPDS (Water Policing and Diving Services).

On arrival on the scene NSRI rescue swimmers initiated a search in De Villiers Dam for a 20 year old male, from Plumstead, who friends on the scene indicated where he had gone missing in the dam reportedly while swimming in shallow water.

Police divers took over in search efforts and located and recovered the body of the man from under water.

Sadly the man was declared deceased by paramedics.

The body of the man was taken into the care of Police and Government Health Forensic Pathology Services.

Police have opened an Inquest docket.

Condolences are conveyed to the family and friends of the deceased man.

The cooperation and the swift response of TMNP rangers, NSRI Hout Bay rescue swimmers, Police and the emergency services, to this remote location, is commended.

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