Scuba divers rescued at sea on KZN south coast

The National Sea Rescue Institute in Margate launched a search on Sunday after receiving reports of a missing group, including a father and his daughter.

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The NSRI's Craig Lambinon says various emergency groups came together for an extensive air, sea, and shoreline operation.

"The four divers were located by the crew onboard the NSRI rescue craft, Spirit of Dawn. They were three nautical miles offshore of Leisure Bay and were recovered onto the NSRI rescue craft.

[They were] in good spirits, although a bit sunburnt, dehydrated, hungry and tired. They had drifted some 18 nautical miles south from where they had surfaced when they had lost sight of their dive boat before drifting away in sea currents contributed by the sea conditions in excess of 4.5-meter sea swells.

Medical treatment was commenced by paramedics, including for motion sickness to one of the divers, and they were brought safety at Shelly Beach."

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