SoPlett! | Plettenberg Bay News and Info

Nikki Gericke was taken to hospital at the weekend after experiencing difficulties at The Wedge in Plettenberg Bay.

Local NSRI members were kept on their toes this season with callouts throughout the Southern Cape – after one of these, Plett local MOZ LEATHEM felt compelled to pen the below account to warn readers against inadvertently summoning our boys in red:

A DAY on the beach at Nature’s Valley turned into a tragedy for a Norwegian couple, with a 30- year-old man losing his life.

FOUR crewmen drowned, one is still missing and one was rescued after a fishing trawler capsized off Mossel Bay yesterday as gale-force winds lashed the Southern and Eastern Cape coastline.

An alert onlooker and two surfers helped rescue a 62-year-old British holidaymaker just seconds before he disappeared under the water after being washed out to sea at Plettenberg Bay’s Lookout Beach yesterday.