Monday, September 17, 2007

Teacher drowns off the coast of Bantry Bay

By Ilhaam Hoosain
17 September 2007


On Sunday afternoon police received a report of a person missing between Saunders Rocks and Queens Beach, Bantry Bay.

“On arrival at scene the SAPS found colleagues of a 23 year old female teacher from Rondebult Secondry School, in Johannesburg, who went missing,” says National Sea Rescue Institute spokesperson Craig Lambinon.

The colleagues reported that they saw her last when she was taking photographs from the rocks on the edge of the shore.

The police arrived and contacted the NSRI control, the Police Dive Unit and the Metro Ambulance and Rescue Services, assuming the female had washed away into the sea or may have fallen into the sea.

“While they were contacting the rescue authorities the body of the female was found washing through the surf onto the beach,” says Lambinon.

The police immediately called a local metro paramedic, who declared the female dead on the scene.

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