The NSRI and emergency services are urging the people to exercise caution along the coast, as storm seas, combined with the new moon Spring tide, which peaks on Tuesday, will contribute to dangerous sea conditions around the South African coastline, Cape {town} Etc reports.
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This follows a weekend in which severalincidents occurred along the coastline of the Western Cape.
These included a high-angle technical rescue effort to save a guy injured in a fall at Geirings Point.
On Friday, an NSRI Hermanus rescue vehicle was called to investigate reports from Overberg Emergency Control that a man had fallen at the Hermanus cliff walk near Gearings Point in Hermanus.
When police arrived on the site, they found the casualty to be semi-conscious after falling a substantial distance from a cliff and landing on rocks, seeming to be gravely injured.
‘NSRI crew and paramedics reached the 30 year old male casualty where medical treatment was initiated,’ said Willem de Bruyn, NSRI Hermanus station commander.
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‘Rescue gear was transferred to the scene where a high angle rescue operation was commenced.’
Secured into a Stokes basket stretcher, using Fire and Rescue Services and EMS rescue squad ladders, and rope technical high angle systems, the man, in a serious condition, was hoisted up the cliff in a coordinated rescue operation led by rescue paramedics.
‘On the patient being brought safely to the cliff top he was loaded into an ambulance and in the care of paramedics he was transported to hospital by CMC ambulance in a serious but stable condition for further medical care.’
Meanwhile, a SUP (Stand Up Paddle Board) paddler has been rescued after being caught in high winds offshore of Chapmans Peak.
On Saturday, NSRIO Hout Bay duty controllers were alerted by a Llandudno Lifesaving Club lifeguard who was witnessing a SUP paddler appearing to be in difficulty offshore of Chapmans Peak.
It appeared that the paddler was being blown further out to sea despite efforts to paddle towards the shoreline.
NSRI Hout Bay coast watchers were requested to ‘look out’ while additional NSRI Hout Bay crew were dispatched to investigate.
‘With eyewitness reports being received that indicated the paddler was now falling off his board and appeared to be in increasing distress our NSRI Hout Bay duty crew were activated to respond to our NSRI Hout Bay station 8 rescue base where the NSRI rescue craft Albie Matthews was launched,’ Spencer Oldham, NSRI Hout Bay station commander, said.
‘The Llandudno lifeguard and NSRI rescue crew, observing the paddler from a vantage point height along Chapans Peak Drive, and with increased concerns that the paddler was now appearing to be in peril, assisted to direct the NSRI rescue craft to the paddlers location.’
‘On the NSRI rescue craft Albie Matthews arriving on the scene, between Flora Bay and Tintswalo, the paddler, a 39-year-old Chinese male tourist, who had hired the SUP, was rescued onto the NSRI rescue craft.’
A WC Government Health EMS rescue vehicle, in Hout Bay at the time, was activated by EMS Metro Control, to assist to medically evacuate the patient at NSRI Hout Bay base.
‘The man was brought to our NSRI rescue base where following some medical treatment for hypothermia he required no further assistance.’
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