{"id":45477,"date":"2026-03-30T17:53:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T15:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/man-declared-deceased-following-cardiac-arrest-westbrook-beach-kzn\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T17:53:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T15:53:54","slug":"man-declared-deceased-following-cardiac-arrest-westbrook-beach-kzn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/man-declared-deceased-following-cardiac-arrest-westbrook-beach-kzn\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Declared Deceased Following Cardiac Arrest: Westbrook Beach \u2013 KZN"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 38-year-old man was tragically declared deceased after suffering a cardiac arrest on Westbrook Beach in Westbrook, KwaZulu-Natal, on Monday morning.<\/p>\n

IPSS Medical Rescue together with IPSS S&R Tongaat volunteers was first on scene after multiple reports of a possible drowning. Upon arrival, paramedics found family members performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on the unresponsive patient on the shoreline. Advanced<\/p>\n

Life Support Paramedics immediately took over and initiated advanced life support resuscitation.<\/p>\n

It is understood that the man, who was on holiday in KwaZulu-Natal, had exited the surf shortly before collapsing and going into cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n

Despite extensive resuscitation efforts, the patient could not be revived and was declared deceased on scene.<\/p>\n

The man’s identity was confirmed by family members who were present at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n

Our condolences go out to the family and friends of the deceased. <\/p>\n

0823 911911…<\/p>\n

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A 38-year-old man was tragically declared deceased after suffering a cardiac arrest on Westbrook Beach in Westbrook, KwaZulu-Natal, on Monday morning. IPSS Medical Rescue together with IPSS S&R Tongaat volunteers was first on scene after multiple reports of a possible drowning. Upon arrival, paramedics found family members performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on the unresponsive patient […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45478,"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\/658130856_942525374804163_3416852750381117570_n.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[66,2152],"class_list":["post-45477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents","tag-kwazulu-natal","tag-kzn"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/658130856_942525374804163_3416852750381117570_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45477","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=45477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}