Alan Stilwell, the NSRI Port Edward duty controller, said that the NSRI Port Edward duty crew were activated following eye-witness reports of a drowning in progress at Peter Pan Beach, Port Edward.
The sea rescue Rescue Runner was launched, Tower 13 lifeguards at the adjacent Kidds Beach responded, Police Search and Rescue, Med-Evac ambulance services and Netcare 911 ambulance services were activated.
It appears that a young female was caught in rip currents while swimming, her father went into the surf to assist followed by her mother who also entered the surf to assist.
A local surfer went to their assistance and a young man swimming nearby went to their assistance after all three, the daughter, her mother and her father, were caught in rip currents.
The mother and the daughter were swept onto rocks where the surfer assisted them and they were rescued to the beach by Tower 13 lifeguards and they were not injured.
Tower 13 lifeguards recovered the father, a 40 year old Johannesburg man, from the surf and paramedics conducted CPR (cardio pulmonary resuscitation) efforts on the scene but sadly after all efforts to resuscitate the man were exhausted he has been declared deceased.
Police have opened an inquest docket and the body of the man has been taken into the care of the forensic pathology services.
Condolences are conveyed to the family.
ORIGINAL
A man has died while swimming at a beach on the South Coast this morning (22nd).
According to Netcare 911, paramedics responded to reports of a drowning at ‘Kids Beach’ in Leisure Bay at about 8.30am.
Reports from the scene indicate that a man and woman had been swimming in the sea when they both got in difficulty.
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Lifeguards responded and pulled the woman to shore. The man became submerged and was eventually also pulled to shore.
The woman was found to be in a stable condition.
The man was assessed by an advanced life support paramedic and found to have no signs of life, and he was declared dead.
All necessary authorities were on scene.
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