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Every year the Noordhoek Ski Boat Club and Wild side Divers hold a huge dive festival attended by people from all around the country.There are several charities that benefit from the funds raised and Sea Rescue has always been on that list.Talking to Morvan Mclean (centre) revealed some interesting facts about the dive festival. To date they have done 6000 dives in the 13 years the festival has been running, raised over R500 000 is sponsorships of which R250 000 has gone to Sea Rescue.This year Sea Rescue's station in Port Elizabeth was handed 2 Fuji Finepix WP30 cameras and 4 Bushnell binoculars valued at R15000.Attending the function from Sea Rescue was Adrian James, Jonathan Tutfs, Ian Gray, Daniel Heimann, Michael Wakeford.
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