Hope ebbs among waiting families

[caption id="attachment_212218" align="aligncenter" width="596"] Police divers, assisted by NSRI volunteers, cut into the Maredon’s hull to see if any of the missing fishermen are perhaps trapped inside. The chokka boat capsized on Sunday and ran aground on the rocks at Sunset Rock, near Cape St Francis
Picture: Riaan Marais[/caption]

Search goes on for crew members still missing at sea

Hope is dwindling among the families of eight fishermen missing since Sunday morning, when their chokka boat capsized and ran aground at Cape St Francis.

Family, friends and others lined the shore at Sunset Rock yesterday as rescue workers continued the search among the coastal rocks in howling winds, large swells and icy water.

“I have lost hope,” John Max said. Max, 38, was waiting for news about his cousin, Paseka Piki, who had been onboard the Maredon when it capsized.