Body found in shark nets
KZN Sharks Board officials made the gruesome discovery of a man entangled in the shark nets off Addington Beach.
|||Durban - KwaZulu-Natal Sharks Board officials made the gruesome discovery of a man entangled in the shark nets off Addington Beach on Thursday morning.
Mike Anderson-Reade, operations manager at the Sharks Board, said they suspected the man may have drowned and his body washed into the nets.
A team from the Sharks Board was inspecting the shark nets along the Durban beachfront when it came across the unidentified man in the nets.
They contacted the lifeguards and the police when they came ashore. The police search and rescue unit left in a rubber dinghy to help retrieve the body in rough sea conditions.
A diver from the unit was entangled in the nets while trying to free the body. A police harbour patrol boat also came out to assist. The nets were pulled upwards to make them taut. The slightly decomposed body was pulled up and on to the patrol boat and taken into the harbour.
It is believed the man could be in his thirties and was wearing blue jeans and a shirt.
Point police have opened an inquest docket.
Anderson-Reade said it was not known when the man had drowned, and said the police would have to investigate the matter.
He said the man was not swimming, scuba diving or taking part in any recreational activity.
“It’s not unusual for bodies to wash up in the nets, back in the ’80s we used to have about six incidents per year, but now we have about one every other year. We check the nets every day,” he said.
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