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An NSRI rescue team.
The National Sea Rescue Institute in Mossel Bay has recovered the body of a man who had been floating in the sea near Fransmanshoek on the Garden Route. NSRI spokesperson, Craig Lambinon, says that they had been made aware of the incident by a local fishing vessel. He says that the NSRI, the provincial health department and the police responded to the alert.
“On arrival on the scene, approximately 2.8 nautical miles offshore, NSRI crew onboard the NSRI rescue craft secured the body receiving authorisation from police to recover the body onto the rescue craft. The body of the deceased man was brought to the NSRI Mossel Bay station 15 rescue base.”
The body of the adult man, confirmed to be the skipper of a local fishing vessel, reported as a man overboard – the man overboard alert intercepted by Telkom Maritime Radio Services and MRCC – was taken into the care of police and government health forensic Pathology Services,” Lambinon added.
