Delft teenager disappears in Bakoven waters: ongoing search fuels family’s hope
Nafees Isaacs, 18, from Delft slipped off a rock at Bakoven.
Image: supplied
The family of an 18-year-old boy from Delft continued to hold onto hope after he slipped off a rock at Bakhoven while peeing and vanished underneath the dark waters.
It was to be a moment of fun, celebrating the extension of heritage day, with friends and family for Nafees Isaacs but it soon turned into a nightmare on Saturday morning.
The NSRI said police's Water Policing and Diving Services (WPDS), are continuing ongoing search efforts to find the teenager.
During the early hours of Saturday morning the Western Cape Government Health EMS Metro Control, NSRI's Emergency Operations Centre, the police, the police's Water Policing and Diving Services), Law Enforcement and NSRI Bakoven duty controllers, were alerted to a teenager reported to be missing at Bakoven rocks, suspected to may be missing in the water.
Isaacs’ father, Sulaiman Isaacs, told Cape Argus on Sunday that his son and his 21-year-old sister and a group of friends had visited Camps Bay for a braai but that he had slipped on a rock and disappeared underneath the water.
The search is on for an 18-year-old boy at Bakhoven. file The search is on for an 18-year-old boy at Bakhoven. file
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“They were a group of friends who went to Camps Bay for a braai and it was the early hours of the morning,” he said.
Sulaiman said Isaacs’ sister had tried to save him but that the waters were too murky and that she could not see anything.
“His sister heard him calling for help but it was too dark and it was in the mountains," he explained.
“He had moved away from the group to pee and that was when he slipped.
“We have been to where they (police and NSRI) are searching for him and we do not know anything further.”
The teen had been with a group of young adults who had been on the rocks, at Bakoven, when he went missing at sea.
“Shoreline patrols and investigations along rocks and in the area around Bakoven revealed no signs of the teenager where it became increasingly evident that he may have slipped off rocks into the water during the incoming high tide,” the NSRI explained.
“The SA Police Services, Police divers, Law Enforcement, EMS Metro Rescue, and an EMS Metro Rescue drone unit, and NSRI Bakoven rescue swimmers, attended at the scene conducting extensive search efforts, supported by the NSRI Bakoven rescue craft Gemini Legend that was launched to assist in the search."
Police have since opened an investigation while the search efforts are ongoing.
“Thoughts, care and compassion are with family and friends of the missing teenager in this difficult time,” the NSRI stated.
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