JOHANNESBURG – A referee and two athletes participating in a South African triathlon dived into the ocean to rescue two stricken men who were being swept out to sea. After pushing and tugging ...

A South African rescue service says 10 fishermen died and three are missing after the crew of a fishing trawler abandoned their vessel in rough seas off the South African coast.

Search and rescue efforts were underway in South Africa on Saturday to find 11 fishermen missing at sea after their vessel sunk off the coast of Cape Town, the fisheries department said.

South Africa's National Sea Rescue Institute said it was alerted just before 8 a.m. on Sunday morning and immediately launched a sea rescue craft off a beach in the Plettenberg Bay area.

Britain’s Prince William sails off with volunteers of the National Sea Rescue Initiative, at Simon’s Town harbour nearCape Town, South Africa, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024.

A rescue boat is seen next to a South African Navy submarine, after an incident during exercises off Kommetjie in Cape Town, South Africa Sept. 20, 2023.

A fisherman had a close encounter with a white shark in South Africa this week when the predator dragged him towards deep sea for about 50 meters (164 feet). Rescue personnel were deployed from ...

Two sea rescue boats and a helicopter were involved in an immediate rescue operation but did not find him and on Thursday police divers continued the ... president of the South African Rugby Union.

Three South African Navy personnel have died after seven crew members of a submarine were swept off its deck by big sea waves as a helicopter attempted a “vertical transfer” of supplies, the ...