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Eastern Cape police have opened an inquest docket, after a man died while swimming ashore from a boat that had run out of fuel off the coast of Port St Johns on Wednesday.
The National Sea Rescue Institute says they were alerted to the boat having run out of fuel and the skipper and crewman trying to swim ashore.
NSRI station commander John Costello says the skipper of the boat had reportedly reached shore and had managed to get a lift to Port St Johns where he raised the alarm.
He says when their team arrived at the scene, they found the body of the crewman, in his 40's, and a small boat that washed ashore.
The skipper told the NSRI that they had been fishing 10 nautical miles north of Port St Johns, but the weather had turned bad.
They decided to return to Port St Johns but the boat had run out of fuel.
