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CT lifeguards kept busy as weekend heatwave drives residents to beaches
Beaches and public swimming pools were crammed with those desperate to cool off.
The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) said that the man's lifeless body was spotted in the sea on Sunday.
He fell off a paddle-ski about 30 meters off-shore before disappearing under water.
The whale carcass is gradually drifting closer to shore.
The NSRI said the man was treated on the scene for puncture wounds to his right leg and his torso
Dense fog forced fishing boats to return to shore on Tuesday, but the father and son failed to return.
The man is said to be recovering in hospital after sustaining serious burns when his board caught alight on Saturday.
Police said that Amkelo Mzi's body was discovered by a security guard.
Marine rescue authorities were deployed to the Bakoven area on Friday following reports that a man had gone missing at sea.
On Wednesday, Overberg Fire and Rescue Services members, Hermanus Neighbourhood Watch members and other officials joined the man's family to search for him when he failed to return home.
A boat capsized with 13 men onboard yesterday between Mouille Point and Oudekraal.
The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI)'s Craig Lambinon said that some people who were part of the group managed to swim to shore.
The 58-year-old man's believed to have fallen off the rocks while fishing with a friend at the Gwaing River mouth on Thursday.
Rescuers were dispatched to a quarry at the Blue Rock resort in Sir Lowry's Pass Village on Wednesday following reports of a drowning in progress.
Rescuers managed to help the woman who eventually reached a rock from where she was assisted to shore.
The National Sea Rescue Institute's Craig Lambinon advised people to only swim at beaches where lifeguards are present and to swim in between the flags.
The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) said the teenager disappeared in the surf at Fishermans Walk near Strandfontein Pavilion on Sunday.
The boy went missing at Swartkops River mouth last night.
The 19-year-old man from Kuils River disappeared in the surf after swimming with a friend on Sunday.