Cape Town - An SA Navy Vessel on Saturday morning set sail from Table Bay harbour to lend support to a man attempting to float from Robben Island to the Mainland using balloons.
South African born Matt Silver-Vallance is trying to raise money for the building of the Nelson Mandela Children's hospital. Silver-Vallance will use 200 helium filled balloons to try and pull off his mission.
On one of his latest twitter posts, Silver- Valance said: “Inflation team hard at work, filling 200 balloons with helium. These ain't your Spur balloons, kids.”
A team of 25 people started the inflation process at 3am on Saturday morning and were expected to wrap up shortly. The balloons are 15 meters in diameter, which organisers say is as high as a 12 storeys high.
Silver-Vallance's flying time from the Island to the mainland shore at Bloubergstrand is expected to be somewhere between 45
minutes and an hour. - Sapa