At 06h45 on Sunday, 4 October, NSRI Richards Bay duty crew were activated following reports of a drowning in progress at the Bay Hall area, in front of Zululand Multi Sports Club.
NSRI rescue swimmers, our NSRI rescue vehicle, the SA Police Service, Police Search and Rescue - WPDS (Water Policing and Diving Service), uMhlathuze Fire and Rescue Service and Medcare 24 EMS ambulance service responded.
On arrival on the scene, NSRI and emergency services commenced CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation) efforts on a 28-year-old local man who had been recovered from the water, we believe, by bystander Good Samaritans, following a drowning accident.
uMhlathuze lifeguards, on duty that day, assisted at the scene.
Despite extensive CPR efforts, after all efforts to resuscitate the man were exhausted, the man was sadly declared deceased by paramedics.
The body of the man has been taken into the care of the Police and the Government Health Forensic Pathology Services.
Police have opened an Inquest docket.
Condolences are conveyed to the family of the deceased man.
Cape Vidal – Sunday, 4 October. A teenager rescued and sadly one teenager remains missing.
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