Five kayakers, including German tourists, rescued after dense fog ordeal off Cape Town coast
Rescuers saved five kayakers, including three German tourists, from cold waters off Cape Town’s Atlantic Seaboard after they became disoriented in thick fog and drifted more than a nautical mile offshore, prompting a swift response from the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI).
Distress alert NSRI regional operations manager Dean Wegerle said rescue teams were activated after a sea kayaker offshore of Three Anchor Bay sent a distress alert.
It was later established that the group, comprising two local women aged 60 and 59 and three German tourists aged 35, 26 and 21, had launched from the Three Anchor Bay slipway earlier that morning before becoming trapped in dense fog.
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