{"id":47013,"date":"2026-03-24T07:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T07:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/47013\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T07:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T07:20:11","slug":"fisherman-dies-of-cardiac-arrest-on-kzn-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/47013\/","title":{"rendered":"Fisherman dies of cardiac arrest on KZN beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has died after suffering a cardiac arrest while fishing along the Oslo Beach shoreline, Port Shepstone.<\/p>\n<p>KwaZulu Private Ambulance Service spokesperson Craig Botha said paramedics were called to the scene at about 4pm on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO READ | <a href=\"https:\/\/witness.co.za\/news\/2026\/03\/23\/malfunctioning-traffic-light-scause-delays-and-accidents\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Malfunctioning traffic lights cause delays and accidents<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn arrival, paramedics found an adult male, believed to be about 45 years old, who had collapsed while fishing,\u201d Botha said.<\/p>\n<p>He said bystanders had already started cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and called for help.<\/p>\n<p>Advanced Life Support paramedics continued resuscitation efforts on the shoreline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor nearly an hour, medical teams worked to restore the patient\u2019s heartbeat using advanced cardiac protocols,\u201d Botha said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these efforts, the man did not respond.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO READ | <a href=\"https:\/\/witness.co.za\/news\/pietermaritzburg\/2026\/03\/06\/father-waves-to-son-moments-before-fatal-taxi-accident\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WATCH | Father waves to son moments before fatal taxi accident<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was declared dead on the scene,\u201d said Botha.<\/p>\n<p>He commended the bystanders for acting swiftly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir decision to start early CPR gave the patient the best possible chance of survival,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Botha said the incident highlights the importance of CPR training.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese skills remain the first line of defence in life-threatening emergencies,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The scene was handed over to local authorities for standard investigative procedures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has died after suffering a cardiac arrest while fishing along the Oslo Beach shoreline, Port Shepstone.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[8760,26558,26559,26557,38,157,156,19852,26560],"class_list":{"0":"post-47013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oslo","8":"tag-fishing","9":"tag-heart-attack","10":"tag-kwazulu-private-ambulance","11":"tag-kzn","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-norway","14":"tag-oslo","15":"tag-oslo-beach","16":"tag-port-sheptstone"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116282944616036979","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}