CAPE TOWN – One week later search efforts are continuing to find a missing male teenager from Grassy Park believed to have been swept out to sea at Noordhoek Beach on Sunday 16 November.
Since Wednesday 26 November police divers were continuing their search efforts, said National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) spokesperson Craig Lambinon. It has been 12 days since the teenager was last seen in public.
Police spokesperson FC van Wyk said the matter was still under investigation.
“The search continues. There are no new developments to report at this stage,” said van Wyk
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The NSRI could not say which parts of the sea divers were conducting their search in, nor would they give any further details when People’s Post enquired.
On the Sunday in question, at 16:00, NSRI Hout Bay duty crew and the City of Cape Town Water Rescue Network crew were activated following eyewitness reports of a teenager being swept out to sea at Noordhoek Beach, below Chapmans Peak Drive.
“The male teenager, believed to be aged 15, from Grassy Park, reportedly went into the surf in an attempt to retrieve a ball that had fallen from the rocks. He may have got caught in rip currents and was swept out to sea before disappearing,” said NSRI Hout Bay station commander, Spencer Oldham.
NSRI rescue swimmers, Cape Medical Response (CMR), City Law Enforcement, City Disaster Risk Management (DRM) and the SA Police Services responded.
People’s Post reached out to CMR and the City for comment, but they redirected our queries to the NSRI.
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