Darren Zimmerman, NSRI Simonstown station commander, said:
At 15h09 (Thursday, 13th December) NSRI Simonstown volunteer sea rescue duty crew were activated following reports of a (suspected to be) female child being swept out to sea aboard a paddle craft at Millers Point near to Simonstown on the False Bay Coast.
Initial indications were that a group of children had launched at Millers Point to go for a paddle and it was suspected from the information that was initially received that one female child had gotten into difficulty but on investigation it was confirmed that it was in fact a group of 10 adults that had launched Surf-Ski's, from Millers Point, near Simonstown, to paddle to Fish Hoek and one of the adult females had gotten into difficulty.
One of the paddlers, a 34 year old female, from Sunnyside, Durban, who has respectfully requested that her name not be released, got into difficulty after her surf-ski suffered a broken rudder causing her to keep falling out of the surf-ski after being unable to maintain a heading in a positive direction (because of the broken rudder). She then abandoned her surf-ski and was hanging onto a fellow paddlers surf-ski and they were being swept off-shore.
Our NSRI Simonstown volunteer sea rescue duty crew launched our sea rescue craft EDDIE BEAUMONT II and SPIRIT OF SAFMARINE III and our Sea Rescue vehicle responded and the WC Government Health EMS AMS rescue helicopter (Skymed) was activated.
On arrival on-scene the female was located, hanging onto a fellow paddlers surf-ski, and she was rescued into our sea rescue craft EDDIE BEAUMONT II and she was brought safely ashore.
The female was not injured and her abandoned surf-ski appears to have been lost to the sea.
The remaining surf-skiers continued on with their paddle to Fish Hoek with no further incident.
-ENDS-
Released by:
Craig Lambinon
Sea Rescue Communications
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