At approximately 23h00 on Saturday 8 October, NSRI Still Bay volunteers were activated to assist local police searching for a man suspected to have gone missing on the Goukou River, 8 kilometers upstream of Still Bay.
It is suspected that the man may have been on a Sea Kayak and may have last been seen by 8 people from Stellenbosch, on a rubber-duck, including a doctor, another adult and children, but the circumstances surrounding the incident are not clear and are being investigated by Police.
Enrico Menezies, NSRI Still Bay station commander, said that a search on Saturday night revealed no sign of the man. NSRI volunteers, our NSRI sea rescue craft and a Police Dive team continued to search on Sunday 9 October but as of yet no sign of the missing man has been found and only his sea-kayak has been found.
The involvement, in this incident, of the 8 people on the rubber-duck is not clear but Police are investigating further.
