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A man has died after being swept out to sea at Port Alfred.
NSRI Port Alfred station commander Juan Pretorius says they received a report just after seven thirty on Tuesday morning that a man had been swept off West Pier by a wave.
The victim apparently landed in the Kowie River and was swept out to sea through the river mouth.
Pretorius says the NSRI Port Alfred volunteer sea rescue duty crew launched their craft in 4 meter breaking swells and later found the man floating face down in the water just off East Beach.
Paramedics were unable to revive him and he was declared dead on arrival at hospital.
The name of the man, believed to be from Port Elizabeth and estimated to be in his fifties, has not been released.
And in Durban, the NSRI rushed to the aid of a man who fell overboard from a ship, but were unable to save him.
Station commander Clifford Ireland says a rescue helicopter was also used in the operation.
However, the 61-year-old Romanian man was declared dead by the time paramedics reached him.
