At 6am on Sunday‚ the National Sea Rescue Institute duty crew at Hermanus launched a sea rescue craft and dispatched crew to the Hermanus old harbour to assist police in the ongoing search for local Hermanus 20-year-old Barry Leonard.
According to the NSRI‚ family had launched a search when Leonard had failed to return home in the early hours of Saturday morning.
He was last seen walking down to the old Hermanus harbour at around 2am on Saturday morning.
“Police were notified of the missing man and investigations indicate he had last been seen walking down to the old harbour but no indication of him being seen since and NSRI Hermanus were requested to search the sea and shoreline in the vicinity of the old harbour on the morning of Sunday in an attempt to cover all possibilities.
