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SERVING THE COASTAL COMMUNITY SINCE 1958 NO 6773 TUESDAY 31 JULY 2018 Tel: +264 64 - 205854 / +264 64 - 461866 /Fax: +264 64 - 204813 / 064 - 461824 / Website: www.namibtimes.net
Dramatic rescue of Humpback caught in ropes at oyster farm
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Floris Steenkamp A spectacular rescue effort took place on Sunday of a Humpback whale which became entangled in ropes under the water at one of the oyster farms off Walvis Bay.
Crew of one of the work boats of Tide Water which is anchored nearby said they heard the whale in distress and called Vanessa Janse van Rensburg of Skeleton Coast Marine Launches. Janse van Rensburg made contact with Mr Alan Louw of Namib Marine and Diving Services who together with Steven and Toya Louw departed to where the
whale was in peril. The yacht Dream Chaser and a launch boat of Skeleton Coast Ma-rine Services was already at the scene. They saw ropes which keeps the oyster bags in place entangled around the whale's head. As the whale was totally submerged in the water and trying desperately to free itself, Steven Louw jumped into the water. He wore a wetsuit
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and had his flippers and diving goggles with him. He could reach the whale and used a knife to cut it free from the ropes. “The successful rescue of the Humpback was a fantastic team effort and gratitude goes to everyone who assisted. Shortly afterwards, a friendly pelican landed on the boat and gave Steven a high five for rescuing the whale”, Toya Louw said.
Three busted with cocaine at Narraville
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Human trafficking Weekend of freak and rape - Pakistani traffic accidents and two Namibian women in the dock
An employee of Bank Windhoek was injured on Friday morning, when the mirror of a cash-in-transit van of G4S Securicor hit him as this van was reversing into an area to offload cash. The employee, whose name was not released, was briefly hospitalised and is now recovering at home from his injuries.
A Pakistani national and two Namibian women made a first appearance in the Walvis Bay magistrate's court yesterday on three charges of child trafficking. The two women, identified as Jerezuuka Beverley Kamongua and Melody Ortner, allegedly against a payment provided a sixteen-year-old girl to the Pakistani national for sex. He was identified as Khatri Sarhan.
It was understood the matter was reported to the Walvis Bay Police and is now under investigation. In rather bizarre incident also in Walvis Bay on Saturday morning an employee of a car wash in the cbd attempted to reverse and automatic Toyota Fortuner from the drying and polishing bay. It went horribly wrong. The man, identified as Simon Petrus, ended up reversing the Fortuner at high speed into the intersection of Hage Geingob Street and Rikumbi Kandanga Road, first crashing into a taxi and a stationery
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