In July, a chokka boat with 16 on board capsized off St Francis, this brought back memories of the tragedy in 1966 when 17 fishermen drowned off Still Bay. For the past 50 years, our volunteers have put to sea to rescue strangers. They can only do this because people like you fund the necessary gear to protect our crew in adverse conditions.Helmets and life jackets are two absolute essentials we supply across our entire fleet of rescue craft. These are non-negotiable items and we are running short of both. A life jacket currently costs approximately R1 300 and a helmet around R900. Our current need is for 200 life jackets and 150 helmets; the total cost is R395 000.Help us raise the funds for this essential equipment by supporting our givengain page:https://www.givengain.com/cause/5872/campaigns/18030/
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A man has died after getting into difficulty while bodyboarding at Kenton-on-Sea middle beach on Friday, 25 September, despite the efforts of three Good Samaritans and NSRI Port Alfred crew to save his life ...
Congratulations to Charles Booysen, who took this cracking good photograph of a humpback whale breaching in False Bay, while a 73-year-old man who called for help by activating SafeTrx was rescued by Station 10 Simon’s Town volunteers on the 25th ...