Sunday, 10 June 2012

Man missing after being swept off breakwater



TABLE BAY PORT Thursday 07th June 2012.

NSRI were alerted that Police Divers were responding to Table Bay breakwater following reports that a man had been swept off the breakwater by waves and disappeared.

At 12h35 NSRI Table Bay were placed on alert.

An extensive scuba-dive search by Police Divers has revealed no sign of an unidentified man who is suspected to have drowned.

Eye-witnesses reported seeing the man being swept off the breakwater at approximately 11h45 and on their arrival at the site he could not be seen. Only a white bag, believed to have belonged to him, was seen floating in the water, leading eye-witnesses to suspect that he had drowned.

Initially Waterfront Security and local police were dispatched to investigate and on interviewing eye-witnesses it became evident that a man may have been swept into the sea and disappeared.

A search by Police and Police Divers will continue and an investigation by police has been opened.

- NSRI

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