{"id":24006,"date":"2013-10-03T21:24:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T19:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/2013\/10\/7-saved-from-sinking-pe-based-yacht\/"},"modified":"2013-10-03T21:24:05","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T19:24:05","slug":"7-saved-from-sinking-pe-based-yacht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/7-saved-from-sinking-pe-based-yacht\/","title":{"rendered":"7 saved from sinking PE based yacht"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Keryn van der Walt, NSRI<\/a> Port Alfred duty coxswain, said; \u201cAt 07h38 on Thursday 3 October, NSRI<\/a> Port Alfred volunteer sea rescue duty crew were activated following reports of the yacht HLANGANA taking water and sinking with 7 crew onboard 4 nautical miles West of Boknes, in the Eastern Cape.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe yacht was being taken to Port Alfred, from Port Elizabeth<\/a>, for routine repair when, reportedly, she ran into rocks on North reef of Bird Island at around 06h30 this morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe crew had, after numerous attempts to raise the alarm, sent a radio distress message to Telkom Maritime Radio Services and then NSRI Port Alfred was activated.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur NSRI Port Alfred volunteer sea rescue duty crew launched two of our sea rescue craft LOTTO CHALLENGER and RESCUE 11 ALPHA and responded.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn arrival on-scene we found the 7 crew, 6 males and a female, all aged in their 50\u2032s except one male aged in his 20\u2032s, from the Eastern Cape, bailing water from a semi-submerged yacht that had been holed after striking a reef.<\/p>\n

\u201cNSRI rescue crew were put aboard the yacht to assist to bail water and a water extrication pump was transferred onto the yacht but by that stage the yacht was listing dangerously and the decision was taken for all crew to abandon ship.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll casualty crew and our NSRI rescuers were transferred onto our sea rescue craft and the yacht keeled over on her side lying semi-submerged.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn instructions from MRCC (Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre), in an effort to avoid a maritime navigational hazard, NSRI were instructed to attempt to sink the yacht but efforts were unsuccessful and a maritime navigational warning continues to be broadcast by Telkom Maritime Radio Services of the semi-submerged yacht floating at sea off-shore of Cannon Rocks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe casualty crew have been brought to Port Alfred safely aboard our NSRI sea rescue craft and no one was injured.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe owner and skipper, Leon Naude, will decide on salvage operations or attempts will be made to scuttle the yacht.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leon and his crew on Hlangana were a very familiar site offshore Algoa Bay when they acted as committee boat for national and local regattas. ABYC and I will always fondly remember Hlangana who has sailed to Rio de Janeiro and back as well as logging many miles up and down the South Africa Coastline.<\/p>\n

\"Hlangana\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Hlangana \u2013 committee boat at the 2013 ABYC week.<\/p>\n

\"Hlangana<\/a><\/p>\n

Hlangana after striking North Reef off Bird Island<\/p>\n

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Keryn van der Walt, NSRI Port Alfred duty coxswain, said; \u201cAt 07h38 on Thursday 3 October, NSRI Port Alfred volunteer sea rescue duty crew were activated following reports of the yacht HLANGANA taking water and sinking with 7 crew onboard 4 nautical miles West of Boknes, in the Eastern Cape. \u201cThe yacht was being taken […]<\/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":[3330],"tags":[3338,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-24006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-port-elizabeth","7":"tag-mype-co-za","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\/24006","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=24006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}