A Johannesburg man saved the life of a Stellenbosch swimmer at Gordon's Bay beach in the Western Cape on Saturday.
The National Sea Rescue Institute said Good Samaritans JD Siecker and his girlfriend Kim Nast, from Johannesburg, were swimming at Gordons Bay beach at about 3.15pm on Saturday when they noticed two men in difficulty.
Alan Meiklejohn, NSRI Gordons Bay station commander said when Siecker went back to assist the second man, he had disappeared under water. Meiklejohn said the second man's lifeless body was recovered by a combined team of responders, however efforts to resuscitate him were unsuccessful.Around the same time in East London, Geoff McGregor, NSRI East London duty controller, said their duty crew were activated after reports of a drowning in progress at the Nahoon River mouth.
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