The police in Cape Town
are apparently well-known
for their skills in rescuing
stranded ships.
At least that’s the
impression you get from a
story carried by the May 15
edition of the Cape Times.
Writer Melanie Gosling
told the tale of a Sunday
morning phone call to port
control from a concerned
Clifton flat resident who
was reporting a long-line
fishing boat about to be
grounded off First Beach,
but was fobbed off with the
instruction to phone the
police.
Caller Mea Bruning and
her husband did that, and
also contacted the Table
Bay National Sea Rescue
Institute (NSRI), who
immediately came to the
scene.
And, after the SA
Maritime Safety Authority
(Samsa) and tug boat owner/
operators Smit Amandla
had become involved, the
salvage operation for the
stranded Japanese fishing
vessel was raised to a
national level.
A further call from
Bruning to the port
manager, Sanjay Govan,
raised the promise that he
would “make sure it doesn’t
happen again, and make
sure our people know how
to deal with it” – something
that you would have thought
a port control should
already know how to do.
Grounded ship incident reflects poorly on CT port
25 May 2012 - by Alan Peat
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