Saturday was an intensive training day at Struisbaai. The whole day was dedicated to surf training, kindly provided the guys from Station 16, who, well versed in the art of handling a RIB in surf, gave up their free time to pass their knowledge on to the volunteers at the Agulhas rescue base.Then, as Murphy will have it, just after everything was cleaned up and stowed, they got a call for a medical casevac off a fishing trawler.
First aid? Most of us are not even at first base
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