Notices
On Saturday 15 Jan 2022 members of Coastal Water Rescue was despatched back to Smelly Creek to assist the SAPS with the recovery of the drowning victim of the previous weekend. This is not typically within the mandate of Coastal Water Rescue, but during that time the SAPS divers were deployed in the East London area for flooding assistance.
The body of the drowning victim was recovered by CWR members and the SAPS and handed over.
The CWR squad was activated at 16:54 today following reports of a drowning in progress/missing teenager at Wells Estate. On arrival, it was established that a group of friends were swimming at Wells Estate, but one in the group got into trouble in the rip current.
The squad did an initial shore search, followed by a water search, which had to be called off due to very fast-flowing currents which made the task very difficult, unfortunately without any success.
Sea Rescue Port Elizabeth launched their rescue craft Rescue 6B and assisted with search patterns in deeper areas.
Services on Scene: CWR, Beach Office, NSRI, SAPS Dive Unit, EMS, Fire, BWBLSC
The CWR squad was deployed to the Schoenies area earlier today to assist with the search for a missing person. A large area was covered with nothing found.
https://www.heraldlive.co.za/news/2022-01-04-mystery-over-nelson-mandela-bay-moms-disappearance/
The CWR squad was activated at 12:21 on 23 Oct 2021 following reports of a drowning in progress at Sardinia Bay.
On arrival it was found that a large group of students were on the beach, one of them went into the water to go and swim but got into trouble. A second student entered the water to assist but unfortunately also got into trouble in the rough sea conditions.
Bystanders managed to assist the first student out of the water but she was unresponsive and the alarm was raised for assistance. Gardmed was on scene and initiated CPR which was unfortunately not successful.
Rescue swimmers from Coastal Water Rescue and Sea Rescue Port Elizabeth did a thorough water search followed by a shore search without any success.
The student who went to assist is still missing and presumed drowned.
Services on scene: Coastal Water Rescue, NSRI Station 6, SAPS Divers, SAPS Sector Vehicle, Beach Office, EMS, Fire, Gardmed, Relay.
On Friday 24 September the CWR squad received a call from a concerned person saying that they heard somebody calling for help from the Swartkops River Mouth. We immediately contacted BWBLSC Rescue who was also aware of this. The Water Emergency Response Committee was notified at the same time.
The CWR squad was activated to respond to the river mouth. On arrival, one person was found stuck on one of the pylons and additional information that there were three people and a small dinghy had capsized and one person had been swept out to sea.
BWBLSC launched their inflatable boat and with a CWR member as a crewman they went to retrieve the person still on the pylon. It was then established that there were three people on the pylon, two of them wanted to return to shore with the dinghy but just after setting off they capsized due to the wake caused by two large rubber ducks moving towards the mouth at speed.
The one casualty managed to make it to shore, but the other, who was stuck in the fast-flowing channel was being swept out to sea.
A shore search was initiated between BWB Rescue and CWR members, and NSRI's assistance was requested.
NSRI launched their brand new Rescue 6A craft from the harbour and also responded via road. On Rescue 6A's arrival they started a search pattern as close to shore as they could, and within 5 minutes of starting the search they came across the casualty in the water. She was severely hyperthermic and Rescue 6A returned to their harbour base at speed where she was handed over to EMS for further treatment.
Services on Scene: Coastal Water Rescue, BWBLSC, BWB Rescue, SAPS Dive Unit, SAPS Sector Vehicle, Beach Office, NSRI
