{"id":15556,"date":"2012-10-14T05:55:44","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T03:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/update-1-one-dead-two-missing-in-s-africa-boat-accident\/"},"modified":"2012-10-14T05:55:44","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T03:55:44","slug":"update-1-one-dead-two-missing-in-s-africa-boat-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-one-dead-two-missing-in-s-africa-boat-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-One dead, two missing in S.Africa boat accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Boat carrying 41 capsizes off bay<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Two French nationals among the rescued<\/p>\n<p> (Changes dateline, updates death toll)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">CAPE TOWN<\/span> Oct 13 (Reuters) &#8211; One person was killed and two<br \/>\nmore were missing after a charter boat on a popular sight-seeing<br \/>\ntrip capsized off South Africa&#8217;s Hout Bay near Cape Town, rescue<br \/>\nofficials said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Two of those rescued from the twin-hulled catamaran<br \/>\n&#8220;Miroshga&#8221; were French women, said Craig Lambinon, spokesman for<br \/>\nthe National Sea Rescue Institute. The boat was carrying 41<br \/>\npeople, including crew, at the time of the accident, he said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We recovered one person out of the hull, who has been<br \/>\nhospitalised in a stable but serious condition,&#8221; Lambinon said,<br \/>\nadding that rescuers were trying to free another two under the<br \/>\nhull.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It was unclear what caused the boat to capsize in the cold<br \/>\nwaters close to Duiker Island, about three km from Hout Bay on<br \/>\nthe Atlantic Ocean side of the Cape Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The island is a popular destination for tourists eager to<br \/>\ncatch a glimpse of thousands of seals found there.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Local media had previously reported that at least four<br \/>\npeople had died.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Wendell Roelf; Editing by Alison Williams and<br \/>\nJason Webb)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Boat carrying 41 capsizes off bay * Two French nationals among the rescued (Changes dateline, updates death toll) CAPE TOWN Oct 13 (Reuters) &#8211; One person was killed and two more were missing after a charter boat on a popular sight-seeing trip capsized off South Africa&#8217;s Hout Bay near Cape Town, rescue officials said [&hellip;]<\/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":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-15556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","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\/15556","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=15556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}