The fiery incident involved the now abandoned 62-year-old MVF Armana while she was located approximately 60 Nautical Miles offshore from Gansbaai.
Nine of the 20 local fishermen were saved after a mayday call was intercepted on Friday afternoon.
It was not the captain, crew, engineers, or cruise officials who saved all of the passengers aboard the Oceanos cruise ship that sank off the coast of South Africa in 1991.