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Ian Gray, NSRI<\/a> Port Elizabeth station commander, said; \u201cAt 09h02 on Thursday 7 June, NSRI<\/a> Port Elizabeth volunteer sea rescue duty crew were activated following reports of a small fixed wing light aircraft crashed into the sea approximately 1.5 nautical miles off-shore between The Willows and Schoenmakerskop, approximately 18 nautical miles West of the Port Elizabeth harbour.<\/p>\n \u201cOur NSRI volunteer sea rescue duty crew launched our sea rescue craft and a full Emergency Services response was initiated.<\/p>\n \u201cVery shortly into the response it was confirmed that this was not an airplane crashed into the sea but a 12 foot fishing boat that had capsized and the 4 fishermen onboard were setting off red distress flares from the upturned hull of their boat.<\/p>\n \u201cOn arrival on-scene all 4 fishermen were found to be safe, not injured, and they have been taken onboard the NSRI sea rescue craft.<\/p>\n \u201cAttempts made by NSRI rescuers on-scene to try to right their capsized fishing boat have been successful and the NSRI rescue craft is now towing the casualty fishing boat towards Port Elizabeth, with all 4 fishermen safe on the NSRI sea rescue craft.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is unknown at this stage what caused the fishing boat to capsize and NSRI will provide another statement as soon as more details are available.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is unknown at this stage what led to the misconception that this had been an aircraft accident\u201d.<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ian Gray, NSRI Port Elizabeth station commander, said; \u201cAt 09h02 on Thursday 7 June, NSRI Port Elizabeth volunteer sea rescue duty crew were activated following reports of a small fixed wing light aircraft crashed into the sea approximately 1.5 nautical miles off-shore between The Willows and Schoenmakerskop, approximately 18 nautical miles West of the Port […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-11191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}