(Edited by Bev Mortimer) - Nine fishermen were rescued after local fishing vessels located and recovered the survivors on a life raft. The search operation is ongoing for the 11 missing fishermen. The survivors are not injured and they were brought to the Port of Table Bay aboard a fishing vessel last night and are…
Nine fishermen have been rescued as a search and rescue mission continues for 11 others still missing after a fishing trawler sank in deep sea off Cape Town's Atlantic seaboard.
Minister of forestry, fisheries and the environment Barbara Creecy has expressed "shock and sadness" over the sinking of a fishing trawler off Cape Town's Atlantic coast.