ST FRANCIS BAY - MAN BELIEVED TO SUFFER FATAL HEART ATTACK AT FINISH LINE OF PADDLE RACE

During the morning, Monday, 28th December, NSRI St Francis Bay monitored safety during a paddle race where at the finishing line, at Main Beach, a man, believed to be 51 years old suffered a fatal heart attack.

NSRI medics assisted 2 Cardiologists, believed to have been part of the paddle race and who happened to be at the beach at the time and who immediately began CPR (Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation) efforts.

Private Care ambulance services were on the scene within minutes and paramedics assisted with the CPR efforts but sadly despite extensive CPR efforts the man was declared dead on the scene.

At 15h30, NSRI St Francis Bay launched the sea rescue craft Spirit of St Francis II to assist a man and a woman on a capsized Hobie-Cat 2 nautical miles off-shore of St Francis Bay Lighthouse.
NSRI St Francis Bay received 60 phone calls from eye-witnesses reporting the incident and NSRI thank everyone who called for their concern.

Both persons were wearing life-jackets and were found hanging onto their upturned Hobie-Cat in the gusting to 30 knot winds and they were rescued, their craft was righted, and they were brought ashore without incident and they required no further assistance.

VIA - nsri.org.za