Tom Coetzee, NSRI Kommetjie station commander, said; “At 15h43 on Saturday 21 January, NSRI Kommetjie volunteer sea rescue duty crew were activated following reports of a man missing in the surf at Inner Komm, Kommetjie, near to the Kommetjie boat slip-way.
“It appears that a 29 year old father was swimming with his 8 year old son when he got into difficulty and disappeared under water at around 11h30 this morning.
“The child was not injured and two eye-witnesses had come to his aid on his reaching the shore.
“It appears that the two eye-witnesses and the child and other bystanders claimed that they had been trying to raise the alarm since but it is not clear how they were trying to do this and Police are investigating the sequence of events.
“Our NSRI volunteer sea rescue duty crew launched our sea rescue craft the DISCOVERY rescue runner and NSRI rescue swimmers free dived on the scene to try to find the missing man.
“The SA Police Force were on-scene assisting in the search and had taken the child home to fetch his mother and other family members. A police dive unit was activated to respond to join in the search.
“During the search NSRI volunteers located and recovered the body of the man onto the sea rescue craft. He was found by NSRI volunteers floating semi-submerged under water near to where he had been reported to have gone missing.
“The body of the man was brought ashore aboard the NSRI sea rescue craft and handed into the care of the Forensic Pathology Services.
“The family are receiving trauma counseling.
“The deceased man is Christopher Robinson, from Ocean View.
“Police have opened an inquest docket.”
