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A man drowned during a pipeline activity on Saturday.
A river guide drowned during a pipeline activity in the Storms River near Tsitsikamma in the Eastern Cape on Saturday.
According to Lodewyk van Rensburg, commander of the National Maritime Rescue Institute’s (NSRI) Oyster Bay station, NSRI Plettenberg Bay service personnel and police were called to the mouth of the Storms River Saturday night after nine people, two river guides and seven guests, will be reported late. from a rowing downstream in tubes.
“Upon arriving at the scene, eight of the nine [people had] they arrived at the meeting place and reported that one of the two river guides had fallen into the water upstream, “said Van Rensburg.
An operation to retrieve the body of the dead was carried out at first light on Sunday morning.
The man’s body was placed in the care of the Eastern Cape Forensic Pathology Services and the police opened an investigation file.
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