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GOURITSMOND NEWS - The hull and bits of wreckage among rocks at Gouritsmond are all that remain of the Zindago, the boat used by fishermen, Rikus Bester (47), who died in the tragedy, and Robert John Hemphill (58), who is still being sought.
The two had gone out to sea on 26 April.
The wreckage of the boat washed ashore at Gouritsmond the following day, Sunday, and the body of Bester, was found near the wreckage.
Bester was a Mossel Bay resident and Hemphill lives in George.
On Tuesday, 29 April, Mossel Bay Advertiser went to the scene of the wreckage. It was accessed by parking at a spot past the Kanon Private Nature Reserve and then walking to Gouritsmond for about two kilometres on a path on the rocky shoreline.
The name of the boat can be seen on a piece of wreckage, which appears to have been placed with other pieces of the boat, beside the path.
Video of the boat wreckage
From about 50 metres further down the path, towards the river mouth, the hull of the boat can be seen, upside-down on rocks at a pool, in which there is more wreckage.
People are urged not to go to the site of the wreckage as the search is still ongoing.
The hull on a rock and pieces of the boat in a pool.
Some of the debris in a rock pool near the underside of the hull.
Previous articles:
- Mossel Bay man dead, another man missing in Gouritsmond boat tragedy
- Oorlede visserman se familie hartgebroke
- Soektog na vermiste visserman van George duur voort
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