No sign of missing canoeists

OFFICIALS of the Namibian Police and the Sea Rescue Institute of Namibia (SRIN) said yesterday that there was still no sign of the two missing Walvis Bay canoeists.

Search and rescue operations, described to be one of the biggest at the coast in a long time, were launched at Walvis Bay on Sunday night after Thorsten Pronk and Jurgen Sager went missing earlier in the day. Detective Chief Inspector Sydney Phillander told The Namibian yesterday that there were no new developments, but the search was continuing.Stefan van der Westhuizen of the SIRN at Swakopmund also said that the search party that went out on Wednesday had come back empty-handed.”There was a search party yesterday (Wednesday) but unfortunately nothing new came out of that.Nothing, not one single clue, has been found so far but we have put all the vessels at Walvis Bay on alert and to be on the look-out for any signs of the young men,” Van der Westhuizen said.Detective Chief Inspector Sydney Phillander told The Namibian yesterday that there were no new developments, but the search was continuing.Stefan van der Westhuizen of the SIRN at Swakopmund also said that the search party that went out on Wednesday had come back empty-handed.”There was a search party yesterday (Wednesday) but unfortunately nothing new came out of that.Nothing, not one single clue, has been found so far but we have put all the vessels at Walvis Bay on alert and to be on the look-out for any signs of the young men,” Van der Westhuizen said.