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Fishermen Assisted After Their Boat Capsizes

Norman Rautenbach, NSRI Richards Bay station commander, said: At 19h10, Wednesday, 29 April, NSRI Richards Bay duty crew, while at the NSRI Richards Bay station 19 rescue base, witnessed a red distress flare in the vicinity of Pelican Island.

While launching the NSRI rescue craft Spirit of Round Table II to go to investigate NSRI Richards Bay duty controllers and NSRI EOC (Emergency Operations Centre) received multiple eyewitness reports of the red distress flare when an additional 3 red distress flares were sighted in the same vicinity.

Additional multiple eyewitnesses reported seeing the red distress flares.

On our rescue craft arriving in the area of the red distress flares, near to the Port of Richards Bay entrance, in the Bay, a small open 14 foot boat was located with one local adult man in the boat and one local adult man in the water.

They reported that their boat was capsized by a wave coming over the submerged sand bank, they had both been in the water but had managed to right their capsized boat as NSRI were arriving on the scene and one man was already back in the boat.

The man in the water was assisted to get back into their boat while an NSRI rescue swimmer was deployed into the water and established a towline to their boat.

The 2 men were not injured.

We towed their boat to ZYC (Zululand Yacht Club) without incident and their boat was recovered.

The 2 men, who had been out fishing when the incident occurred, expressed their appreciation for the assistance, and they required no further assistance.

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