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A team from the National Institute of Maritime Rescue in Knysna was dispatched Friday night after residents reported seeing an unidentified object drifting in the lagoon.
Initial reports indicated that the object was the wing of an airplane or the overturned hull of a ship that was heading towards Knysna Heads in high winds.
However, according to NSRI station commander Jerome Simonis, the unidentified object turned out to be the roof of a daytime cruiser, which the owner had swam from shore to retrieve.
Eyewitnesses reported an object described as perhaps the wing of an airplane, or the overturned hull of a ship, drifting off Knysna Heads in strong 25-knot west winds.
“Upon arriving at the site, we found a local who had swam to what was identified as the roof of his daytime cruise.
“It appears that the crew on board the ship alerted you that the roof of your ship had collapsed in high winds and was heading towards The Heads.
“He had made it to shore and swam to the roof and hooked up a tow rope to attempt to swim from the roof to shore, but in the high winds the large roof was being swept towards The Heads when eyewitnesses alerted NSRI” .
Simonis said the man was taken aboard the NSRI rescue vessel and the roof was secured with a tow rope to prevent it from rolling away.
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