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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.
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