{"id":42518,"date":"2026-01-01T16:19:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T14:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/fatal-drowning-at-strand-beach\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T16:19:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T14:19:17","slug":"fatal-drowning-at-strand-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/fatal-drowning-at-strand-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal drowning at  Strand Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At approximately 09h35, NSRI Gordons Bay rescue crew, standing by at the NSRI Gordons Bay satellite rescue station, at Strand Beach, were approached by a lady claiming that there was a drowning in progress but it appears that the could not indicate where along the beach the incident was occurring.<\/p>\n<p>NSRI Gordons Bay crew alerted CoCT (City of Cape Town) lifeguards, at Strand Surf Lifesaving Club and lifeguards patrolling Strand Beach, where lifeguards, assisted by NSRI, immediately launched a search in the area along the beach while NSRI EOC (Emergency Operations Centre) viewed CCTV footage and the CoCT water rescue network was alerted.<\/p>\n<p>CoCT lifeguards and NSRI launched rescue craft and lifeguards swam towards bathers in the bathing &#8211; initiating an extensive search.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after initiating a search along the beach a man was discovered floating lifeless in the water, in the swimming zone, and he was recovered to the beach by CoCT lifeguards who initiated CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation)&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=75965&#038;page=fatal-drowning-at-strand-beach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At approximately 09h35, NSRI Gordons Bay rescue crew, standing by at the NSRI Gordons Bay satellite rescue station, at Strand Beach, were approached by a lady claiming that there was a drowning in progress but it appears that the could not indicate where along the beach the incident was occurring. NSRI Gordons Bay crew alerted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/609686752_17915767068246632_5825875854410511191_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/609686752_17915767068246632_5825875854410511191_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}