NSRI called to the rescue of military students off Hermanus harbour
The National Sea Rescue Institute was called in to rescue Stellenbosch military students, when one of their rubber dinghies hit rocks and another capsized off Hermanus harbour in calm conditions on Friday. The students, from the Saldanha Bay-based Stellenbosch University Academy of Military Sciences, were on a charity fund-raising tour from Port Elizabeth to Saldanha Bay. "The cause of the boat washing onto the rocks is not known‚" the NSRI said in a report on the incident. It said a rescue crew was mobilised at 7.16am after a witness saw a pencil rubber-duck washed onto rocks, another capsized, and people in the water near the New Harbour, the NSRI said. A third rubber-duck towed the capsized rubber duck back out to sea‚ where it was righted. Its passengers were thought to have reboarded. The passengers of the boat washed up onto the rocks were not injured and made it safely ashore. Their boat was later recovered from the rocks and brought into Hermanus Harbour, the NSRI said.
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