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Today's Cape Argus has a great story on the NSRI volunteers who went to the rescue of 12 fishermen when their boat went aground on Robben Island in the middle of Monday / Tuesday night in a terrible storm. Although the Argus focused on three NSRI volunteers, who happen to be women, Craig Lambinon summed it up very well by saying, ... ' when you are out there in action there is zero distinction between old and young, men and women ...'NSRI_Argus
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