
Reinard Geldenhuys, NSRI Agulhas station commander, said:
At 08h20, Saturday, 6 September, NSRI Witsand, NSRI Agulhas and NSRI Stilbaai duty crews were activated following eyewitness reports to NSRI EOC (Emergency Operations Centre) and to our NSRI Witsand duty controller, of a boat capsized at the Breede River Mouth, Witsand.
Eyewitness reports confirmed that a ski-boat, with 4 crew onboard, a dad (believed to be age 50), his two teenage daughters (ages 17 and 15) (from Robertson, Western Cape), and a male friend (believed to be age in his 20’s), had capsized in the vicinity of the sand bar in the Breede River Mouth while…
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