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After two ice cream sellers, who operate on the Atlantic seaboard, were involved in helping a man in trouble in the water off the Sea Point Promenade, NSRI’s WaterWise Academy gave the vendors a water safety lesson.Andrew Ingram, who manages the WaterWise Academy met the ice cream sellers and taught them basic peer rescue, who to call in an emergency and how to do Hands-On CPR.Pictures are available for media download on Sea Rescue's Flickr page. Sea Rescue Sea Rescue's emergency number is on Justice Dyer's bike. Ice cream vendors learn peer rescue basics from WaterWise Academy Ice cream vendors learn peer rescue basics from WaterWise Academy's Andrew Ingram.Learning CPR. Learning CPR.
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