Screenshot from video footage taken by Dillan Roode.
Stranded Marine Animal Rescue Team (Smart) are again urging people to avoid seals and remain vigilant, after a seal attacked a local yacht near Seal Island this morning, 25 September.
Kiyana Sailing's skipper, Antonio van der Westhuizen had alerted Smart to an aggressive male seal between Dias Beach and Seal Island, that attacked their boat not once, or twice, but three times.
Van Der Westhuizen told
Mossel Bay Advertiser that it was around 11:00 today when he was making his way out to Seal Island, a place he has been many times before.
"I suddenly felt a bump from below the boat, around the propeller area and when I looked around, I saw a seal trying to get onto the boat. His head was mostly on the boat already," he said.
"I accelerated, and then it bit the back of the boat and then kept charging it."It was just after this when Kiyana Sailing's deckhand, Dillan Roode took a video of it.
