At 06h26 on 21 December 2011, NSRI Witsand volunteer sea rescue duty crew were activated following reports of a boat capsized at ‘The Bar’ (a semi submerged sand bar just off-shore of the Breede River Mouth) with two adult males onboard reported to be clinging to the upturned hull of their boat in choppy sea swell conditions with neither of the two men wearing life-jackets.
NSRI Witsand volunteer sea rescue duty crew launched their sea rescue craft and responded to the scene where they found a number of private boats in attendance.
Both men, a father and son, from Cape Infanta, were safe and not injured and they were brought to shore and NSRI towed their capsized 5 meter boat to the beach where efforts will be made to recover the boat.
NSRI are urging anyone launching any kind of craft onto water, inland or coastal, to wear their life-jackets while their craft is underway.
