The bodies of two men who were reportedly playing soccer on Milnerton's Lagoon Beach were recovered on Monday.
Although a formal identification process still needs to be conducted, it is believed that they are the 19- and 20-year-old members of a local football team who were swept away by strong rip currents on Sunday.
The pair reportedly waded into the surf to retrieve a soccer ball.
'It appears that they were part of a local soccer team playing soccer at the beach when they reportedly went into the surf before being swept out to sea in rip currents,' the National Sea Rescue Institute NSRI said on Sunday.
'The EMS/AMS Skymed rescue helicopter and a Metro rescue squad drone team joined in the extensive air, sea and shoreline search. NSRI rescue swimmers, lifeguards and Cape Town Fire and Rescue Services rescue divers conducted sweeping line search efforts.'
