Mother discovers body of her drowned child, missing for a week, between rocks at Mossel Bay beach - While the community is seeking permanent lifeguards, the municipality contends it cannot afford such
A Mossel Bay mother discovered the body of her nine-year-old son between the rocks of Diaz Beach just a day after the almost week-long search for the child was suspended.
The drowning led to residents pleading with authorities for lifeguards to be stationed more permanently on the town’s beaches. article, recalled how he had rescued a young boy “who was busy drowning in a rip current in waist-high water” on the same day October discovered her son’s body.
October said there were lifeguards stationed further down the beach in front of a hotel, but not where her son and his friends were playing. According to Kotzé, deploying lifeguards during peak times costs the municipality R2-million a year. According to October, her son joined a group of boys who went to the beach with her neighbour, an older man.
“The [Wednesday] morning he constantly asked me ‘what is the time mommy?’. I got frustrated but realised he is just excited to go to the beach. Just after seven that morning was the last time I saw him.”
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