Donate Shop Find a Base Call for Help Now

NSRI EMERGENCY
OPERATION CENTRE (EOC)

087 094 9774
Donate Shop
Find a Base
RESCUE OPERATIONS / 17 AUGUST 2020

Port Alfred – Monday, 17 August. Boat assisted:  

NSRI Port Alfred Lotto 9989 2
Gerrit Cloete, NSRI Port Alfred duty coxswain, said:At 09h20, Monday, 17 August, NSRI Port Alfred duty crew were activated following a request for assistance from a local man and his friend, visiting from Johannesburg, reporting their boat, a 6 meter craft with 2 outboard motors, to be suffering steering failure to one outboard motor suspected to have been sustained while they were departing through the river mouth to go fishing.They were preparing to abort their fishing plan to instead immediately return through the Kowie River Mouth to the Port Alfred Small Boat harbour.They requested assistance by VHF marine radio communications with Telkom Maritime Radio Services and NSRI Port Alfred duty crew were mobilised.Although they would be able to bring the boat in themselves as a precaution they instead stood by off-shore and out at sea, out of harms way, and they alerted maritime rescue authorities and assistance was immediately activated.Our NSRI duty crew responded to our sea rescue station and we launched our sea rescue craft Rescue 11 Alpha.We rendezvoused with the casualty craft half a nautical mile off-shore.Both men were safe but the steering to one outboard motor was damaged.We took the crewman off the casualty craft and the skipper was able to bring his boat safely in through the river mouth with our sea rescue craft escorting him.Once he had his boat safely on the river they required no further assistance and the skipper will have the steering repaired.

Follow Us!

Follow us
Next Article

Yacht assisted - Mossel Bay. Surfer assisted and rip current alert - False Bay

Read More

You may also like

2024 03 27 Plett Robberg
RESCUE OPERATIONS  | Published: 19 OCTOBER 2026

Injured hiker rescued from Robberg Nature Reserve by NSRI Plettenberg Bay

NSRI Plettenberg Bay duty crew were activated following a request for medical assistance from a group of hikers reporting a female in their group suffering an injury and unable to continue on the walk. ...

READ MORE
Medevac off Star Lambada
RESCUE OPERATIONS  | Published: 19 OCTOBER 2026

NSRI Table Bay evacuates injured seafarer from cargo ship in rough seas

NSRI Table Bay carried out a maritime medical evacuation of a seriously injured 30-year-old Filipino seafarer from a 229-metre cargo ship, 12 nautical miles offshore of the Port of Table Bay. ...

READ MORE
Stn 20 Shelly Beach
RESCUE OPERATIONS  | Published: 19 OCTOBER 2026

2 men on disabled jet-ski towed to safety off Ramsgate

Two local men are safe after NSRI Shelly Beach crew towed their disabled jet-ski to Ramsgate Beach on Friday, 16 October, after it drifted about 4.5 kilometres offshore of Southbroom Beach. ...

READ MORE