Image source: www.jacarandafm.co.zaIt is with great sadness that we bid farewell to Nelson Mandela, former Patron of NSRI. We wish you fair winds and will always follow your example.It was on the 8th of December 1994 that Nelson Mandela agreed to become the Patron-in-Chief of the NSRI. In August 1995 he wrote : ' Message from President Mandela to the National Sea Rescue Institute.'Madiba thanked the volunteers for serving the NSRI and the country as a whole, inspiring a generation of Sea Rescue volunteers.
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Read MoreNorman Rautenbach, NSRI Richards Bay station commander, said: At 14h29, Monday, 19 October, NSRI Richards Bay duty crew were placed on alert to prepare for a maritime medical evacuation operation for 3 male seafarers injured onboard a 292-meter bulk carrier ...
A 48-year-old man from Belgium is expected to be discharged from hospital today after a non-fatal drowning incident at a remote beach between Brenton-on-Sea and Buffalo Bay on Monday afternoon. The man, on a cycling holiday with his family, is ...
On Saturday morning, NSRI Port Nolloth volunteers on a routine training exercise responded when a local mining vessel raised concern for three of her crew who had gone ashore on their RHIB (rigid hull inflatable boat) and not been heard ...