The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) is appealing to the public and seafarers along the Atlantic Seaboard, particularly between Camps Bay and Hout Bay, to be on the lookout for an NSRI pink rescue buoy that may have washed out along the shoreline or maybe adrift at sea.
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It is believed that the rescue buoy, stationed at Llandudno, was thrown towards missing teenager Ryder Kossatz after he was swept away in sea currents at the Sandy Bay parking area in Llandudno on Wednesday.
It appears that the 17-year-old did not manage to reach the rescue buoy before he disappeared.
‘If the pink rescue buoy is spotted adrift at sea or if spotted washed up on the shoreline please call the NSRI emergency number 0870949774 (NSRI EOC Emergency Operations Centre) or vessels at sea can contact Cape Town Radio on VHF marine radio channel 16,’ read a statement from the organisation.
‘Please also plot the position or provide an accurate description of where the missing pink buoy is found.’
‘The hope is that once the missing pink buoy is located this will assist to determine the drift of the sea that appears to have had no normal drift patterns on the day due to extensively rough sea conditions that prevailed on Wednesday and into Thursday and may lead to assisting helping Police in their ongoing search to locate missing Ryder Kossatz.’
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Picture: Andrew Ingram / NSRI