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News24 reports that the Western Cape High Court has presumed as dead, the 11 fishermen who went missing at sea in May 2024. The men went missing after their fishing vessel, the MFV Lepanto, encountered trouble and sank on 17 May 2024, 34 nautical miles off the coast of Hout Bay.
At the time of their disappearance, the missing crew were employed by Viking Fishing, a division of Sea Harvest Corporation. Nine crewmen were rescued from a life raft and brought to shore unharmed. The vessel at the time of the search in May, was lying at a depth of 350 metres, making recovery operations almost impossible. The bodies of the missing crew members were never recovered. Viking Fishing and relatives of the fishermen approached the court requesting that it declare the missing men deceased to allow the registration and administration of their estates. In a court judgment delivered on Monday, Judge James Lekhuleni noted that despite the diligent search, to date no other vessel or person had reported any sighting of any of the missing crew, nor had their bodies been retrieved. He said there was overwhelming evidence to infer that they died when their vessel sank. "In the result, the missing crew listed hereinabove are presumed to have died at sea on 17 May 2024." The sister of one of the missing crew members, Johnwill Isaacs, said: "Not seeing his body remains the biggest torture for us. Our days are filled with so much sadness because we do not have closure."
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Noxolo Sibiya at News24
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