Strong winds keep people off beach

25 March 2008

By Ilhaam Hoosain

A local yacht struggled to get into Port because the motor had to fight against a 50 knot gusting South Easterly wind.

The Table Bay National Sea Rescue Institute then launched for rescue, but the yacht (Wind Chime) was already four nautical miles off the breakwater, when they called for assistance and by the time the NSRI reached them they had been swept eight nautical miles out to sea.

“She was towed safely with her crew on board, into the port of Table Bay, the Royal Yacht Club,” says NSRI’s Craig Lambinon.

Meanwhile

“Over the weekend a relatively strong wind yesterday appeared to have kept most people off the beach,” says Lambinon.

He goes onto say that it was a relatively quiet weekend with no incidents in the Western Cape or the country.

“On Sunday a few incidents in Durban, where a twelve year old male went missing, a 15-year-old male was confirmed dead, following a drowning accident and a female believed to be in her early twenties is in a stable conditions in hospital, following a drowning accident occurred,” says Lambinon.