{"id":1799,"date":"2026-01-04T03:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T03:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/1799\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T03:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T03:07:17","slug":"two-incidents-at-grotto-beach-hermanus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/1799\/","title":{"rendered":"Two incidents at Grotto Beach, Hermanus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark McLagan, NSRI Hermanus Coxswain, said: At 15h36 on Thursday, 1 January, NSRI Hermanus duty crew were activated following reports from Overstrand lifeguards at Grotto Beach, who had launched a surf rescue operation for an adult male caught in rip currents.<\/p>\n<p>The NSRI rescue vehicle and Western Cape Government Health EMS responded.<\/p>\n<p>On arrival at the scene, an adult male, believed to be a local man, was treated for non-fatal drowning symptoms and was transported to the hospital by EMS ambulance in a stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>At 18h46, NSRI Hermanus duty crew were again activated following eyewitness reports of a drowning in progress at Grotto Beach.<\/p>\n<p>NSRI rescue swimmers, Overstrand Law Enforcement, Overstrand lifeguards, and Western Cape Government Health EMS responded to the scene, where a search commenced for a teenager reported missing in the surf zone.<\/p>\n<p>During the search, the 18-year-old male from Helderstroom was located on the beach suffering non-fatal drowning symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>NSRI and lifeguards assisted in securing the teenager into a Stokes basket stretcher, and he was carried across the beach to a waiting ambulance.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager was transported to the hospital by EMS ambulance in a stable condition.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1280\/720;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-01-02-at-9.52.25-AM.jpeg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"720\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark McLagan, NSRI Hermanus Coxswain, said: At 15h36 on Thursday, 1 January, NSRI Hermanus duty crew were activated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[52],"tags":[1847,131,1846],"class_list":["post-1799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-africa","tag-hermanus","tag-south-africa","tag-two-incidents-at-grotto-beach"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}