Graham Hartlett, NSRI Victoria Lake station commander, said; “At 15h16 on Sunday 10 June, NSRI Victoria Lake volunteer rescue duty crew were activated following eye-witness reports of a male canoeist capsized on Victoria Lake, Germiston, and according to eye-witnesses he had disappeared under water after capsizing, in the vicinity of the public area end of the lake (nearest to the Germiston Golf club) approximately 100 meters off-shore.<\/p>\n
“Our NSRI Victoria Lake volunteer rescue duty crew launched our NSRI rescue craft and Ekurhuleni Emergency Medical Services and the SA Police Force responded to assist.<\/p>\n
“An extensive search using our NSRI rescue craft and an extensive shore search revealed no sign of the missing man and a Police Dive Unit was activated and during a scuba-dive search by Police divers the body of the man was located under water, in the vicinity of where he was last seen by eye-witnesses, and the body has been recovered.<\/p>\n
“The body of the man, a 26 year old male, from Dinwiddie, Germiston, has been handed into the care of the Forensic Pathology Services.<\/p>\n
“It is suspected that the man drowned but an autopsy will be conducted to determine the exact cause of death.<\/p>\n
“Police have opened an inquest docket and trauma counsellors are assisting with the deceased man’s family who arrived on the scene during the search.<\/p>\n
“The name of the deceased man has not been released and the matter is in the hands of the Police.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Graham Hartlett, NSRI Victoria Lake station commander, said; “At 15h16 on Sunday 10 June, NSRI Victoria Lake volunteer rescue duty crew were activated following eye-witness reports of a male canoeist capsized on Victoria Lake, Germiston, and according to eye-witnesses he had disappeared under water after capsizing, in the vicinity of the public area end of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[2970,2969,959],"class_list":{"0":"post-11311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-canoeist","8":"tag-dinwiddie","9":"tag-germiston","10":"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\/11311","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11313,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11311\/revisions\/11313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}