On 12 June at 07h48 NSRI Port Alfred volunteers responded to reports of a boat capsized in the Kowie River Mouth with 2 men onboard.
An NSRI sea rescue craft was launched and NSRI volunteers were also dispatched to East Beach and on arrival on-scene it was found that a 36 year old local skipper and his crewman (also a local male, age not obtained by NSRI) had been swept onto the East Beach by waves after their 5.5 meter ski-boat capsized while they were exiting the river mouth to go to sea.
Neither of the two men were injured and they had held onto the upturned hull of their boat after it capsized and were pushed onto the beach by the waves.
NSRI volunteers assisted to recover their boat which has sustained some damage.
The men said they had exited the river mouth timing sets to try to avoid the incoming waves but as they passed through the harbor exit a wave came up and although they tried to outrun the wave it caught up with them eventually tipping their boat over.
