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Ian Gray, NSRI<\/a> Port Elizabeth station commander, said; \u201cAt 17h45, on Monday, 04th March, NSRI<\/a> Port Elizabeth volunteer sea rescue duty crew were activated following reports of a small 5.8 meter rigid inflatable boat adrift at sea, with 3 local men onboard, suspecting to be somewhere between Schoenmakerskop and Sardinia Bay, 15 nautical miles from the Port of Port Elizabeth, with motor failure.<\/p>\n \u201cOur NSRI Port Elizabeth volunteer sea rescue duty crew launched our sea rescue craft EIKOS RESCUER IV and on arrival on-scene, in fading light and 3 to 5 meter rough sea swells and a 15 knot wind, a search commenced with the hope of finding the drifting boat before nightfall.<\/p>\n \u201cAircraft coming in to land at Port Elizabeth Airport were requested to be on the lookout as the search area was in their flight path.<\/p>\n \u201cAt approximately 19h30 both our sea rescue crew aboard EIKOS RESCUER IV and an Airlink commercial aircraft (coming in to land) spotted the drifting boat simultaneously, 2 nautical miles off-shore, as night fell, and our sea rescue craft rendezvoused with the boat and all 3 men were found safe and not injured.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the rough sea conditions the 3 men, aged 36, 54 and 43, abandoned their boat and were transferred onto our sea rescue craft and brought to our sea rescue base arriving at 21h15.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is expected that their boat will wash ashore in the area.<\/p>\n \u201cThe men were released requiring no further assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ian Gray, NSRI Port Elizabeth station commander, said; \u201cAt 17h45, on Monday, 04th March, NSRI Port Elizabeth volunteer sea rescue duty crew were activated following reports of a small 5.8 meter rigid inflatable boat adrift at sea, with 3 local men onboard, suspecting to be somewhere between Schoenmakerskop and Sardinia Bay, 15 nautical miles from […]<\/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-18564","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\/18564","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=18564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}