All 23 fishermen were rescued from a fishing vessel which ran aground and started breaking up off St Francis Bay on Sunday, said the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI).
NSRI spokesperson Craig Lambinon said the boat hit a sandbank as she left the St Francis harbour entrance in three-metre swells then ran hard aground on the rocks at about 5.30pm.
The boat was washed against dollosse on the shore and started breaking up. The men were then helped on to the dollosse by NSRI shore crews and local residents.
There were only minor injuries.
Earlier in the day the NSRI evacuated a 45-year-old Humansdorp man from the fishing trawler Sea Horse, 20 nautical miles west of the Port of St Francis, after he apparently had a heart attack.
Lambinon said the man was taken to hospital in a serious but stable condition.
At the Wilderness, a 60-year-old angler died from a suspected heart attack on Sunday morning.
Lambinon said paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene. – Sapa