A 79-year-old man has died after falling into the sea at The Point in Mossel Bay. 

The National Sea Rescue Institute said its Mossel Bay team received a distress call at 16:55 on Monday. They were informed that a man appeared to have fallen from the rocks into the sea.  

Sea rescue teams, including the SAPS, ER24 and provincial government EMS services, responded to the scene.  

The NSRI’s Craig Lambinon said that when teams arrived, a Good Samaritan had already gone out to save the man, with rescue efforts underway. 

“While responding to the scene eyewitnesses reported a man, a local Good Samaritan, had entered the water and he had been able to rescue the casualty to the shoreline where bystander CPR efforts were in progress,” said Lambinon. 

Rescue teams then moved to the location where the man had been recovered from the water and continued with CPR.  

“After all efforts to resuscitate the 79-year-old local man were exhausted sadly the man was declared deceased.” 

Lambinon said the man’s body is in the care of the Forensic Pathology Service, while Mossel Bay police have opened an inquest docket. As such, the circumstances of the incident are being investigated.

“Condolences are conveyed to the family of the deceased man. NSRI has commended the local bystander Good Samaritan that rescued the man and who had initiated CPR.”

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