They were given medical treatment, including for motion sickness to one of the divers, and brought safely to Shelly Beach, said NSRI.
The NSRI Shelly Beach duty crew were activated following reports of four scuba divers missing in Protea Banks, Southern Pinnacle, just over 7km offshore of Margate, KZN South Coast. Picture: NSRI
The four scuba divers, three men and a woman, between the ages of 18 and 43, further drifted away in sea currents contributed by the sea conditions in excess of 4.5 metre sea swells, said the NSRI.Two men are from the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast, while a father and daughter are from Cape Town.
SA Air Force Lieutenant-Colonel Pine Pienaar, who happened to be in the area at the time, also volunteered and joined the NSRI’s Joint Operations Control at the NSRI Shelly Beach operations room, assisting to plot the search grids.During an extensive air, sea and shoreline search, involving sweeping line search efforts, in excess of 4.5 metre sea swells, the four divers were located about three hours later.
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