The family of Peter Hyett, the British tourist who drowned when a charter boat capsized off Cape Town over the weekend, are arranging for his body repatriated.
Hyett, 64, and his wife, Suzanne, and daughter, Helen, were due to return to the UK on Sunday after a two-week holiday.
They were all on board the Miroshga when it capsized near Duiker Island, a popular whale watching spot, at about 3pm on Saturday.
Hyett and John Roberts, a deck hand, drowned.
The City of Cape Town is paying for the family's accommodation while it arranges for Hyett's remains to be sent home.
Yesterday, city disaster management spokesman Wilfred Solomon-Johannes said Hyett's insurance firm has appointed funeral directors to make arrangements for the body to be repatriated to the UK.
Suzanne was still unwilling to speak to the media yesterday.
But Solomon-Johannes said the family had "made peace" with their ordeal.
"I've spoken to them. The main thing for them was to find his body," he said.
The wreck of the catamaran has been towed to the Cape Town Harbour where it is being investigated by the South African Maritime Safety Authority.
Gert Strauss, of Southern Ambition Marine Safaris, who owns the vessel, claimed the media had inaccurately reported on certain aspects about the accident, but said the company would wait for the safety authority to complete the investigation before setting the record straight.
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