Two separate tragedies unfolded along the Western Cape and Garden Route coastline on Thursday, 18 December, with a man and a teenage boy losing their lives in unrelated incidents, reports Cape town Etc .
In the first incident, a 27-year-old man is believed to have drowned after being swept off rocks near Schulphoek in Hermanus.
According to NSRI Hermanus coxswain Jean Le Roux, rescue teams were activated at 2:40pm after reports of a person observed appearing to be unresponsive floating face down in the sea offshore of Schulphoek, Hermanus .
