{"id":57329,"date":"2026-10-04T08:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T06:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/department-of-transport-confirms-maritime-incident-off-mossel-bay\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T08:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T06:30:07","slug":"department-of-transport-confirms-maritime-incident-off-mossel-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/department-of-transport-confirms-maritime-incident-off-mossel-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Transport Confirms Maritime Incident off Mossel Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Transport, Ms. Barbara Creecy, and Deputy Minister, Mr. Mkhuleko Hlengwa, have expressed heartfelt condolences to the families of the deceased crew members and to the maritime industry following a fatal incident off Mossel Bay.<\/p>\n<p>The Department confirms that on Wednesday, 30 September 2026, the uMkhuseli Emergency Towing Vessel (ETV), managed by AMSOL on behalf of the Department, experienced a man overboard incident approximately 40 nautical miles off Mossel Bay during inclement weather.<\/p>\n<p>A crew member was pulled overboard while handling a mooring line. A search and rescue operation was immediately activated. A fast rescue boat dispatched to assist capsized in rough seas with four crew members on board.<\/p>\n<p>Three bodies have since been recovered. The search was paused overnight due to deteriorating conditions and resumed on Thursday morning for the two crew members still missing.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Department commends all vessels that responded to the distress call and the&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/news.aspx?s=1&#038;i=78780&#038;page=department-of-transport-confirms-maritime-incident-off-mossel-bay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on Arrive Alive <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Transport, Ms. Barbara Creecy, and Deputy Minister, Mr. Mkhuleko Hlengwa, have expressed heartfelt condolences to the families of the deceased crew members and to the maritime industry following a fatal incident off Mossel Bay. The Department confirms that on Wednesday, 30 September 2026, the uMkhuseli Emergency Towing Vessel (ETV), managed by AMSOL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57330,"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\/Umkhuseli-tug-AMSOL-South-Africa.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/Umkhuseli-tug-AMSOL-South-Africa.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57329","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=57329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}