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Stn 15 Mossel Bay Medical Evacuation
RESCUES  | Published: 9 July 2025

Medical evacuation operations at sea - Mossel Bay and Durban:

MOSSEL BAY: Andre Fraser, NSRI Mossel Bay duty coxswain said: ...

Stn 8 Hout Bay DSC 0313
FUNDRAISING  | Published: 8 July 2025

Demolition and Rebuild of NSRI Hout Bay Base Begins — A New Era in Sea ...

Cape Town, 8 July 2025 — The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) wishes to inform the Hout Bay community that demolition of the Sea Rescue base in Hout Bay harbour has begun to make way for a state-of-the-art facility that ...

Stn 09 Gordons Bay Missing Fisherman
RESCUES  | Published: 6 July 2025

NSRI – Gordons Bay – Sunday, 6 July. A local fisherman is missing:

A search is ongoing for a fisherman swept off rocks by waves while angling from the shoreline. ...

Stn 20 Shelly Beach
RESCUES  | Published: 6 July 2025

Monday, 7 July. Update to the shark incident at Mfazazana:

On Sunday, 6 July, along the coastline of Mfazazana, near to Hibberdene, KZN South Coast, during ongoing search and recovery operations, Police K9 Search and Rescue and WPDS (Water Policing and Diving Services) located and recovered the body of a ...

Still Bay
RESCUES  | Published: 1 July 2025

A local well known and much loved man is sadly deceased

Stéfan Grové, NSRI Stilbaai station commander, said: At 15h58, Monday, 30 June, NSRI Still Bay duty crew were activated following reports of a local man in difficulties surf-skiing near to the local Still Bay jetty, upstream on the Goukou River. ...

Stn 23 Wilderness
RESCUES  | Published: 30 June 2025

NSRI Crews Respond to Multiple Coastal Rescues Over Busy Weekend

WILDERNESS: Ian Gerber, NSRI Wilderness duty coxswain, said: At 15h38, Friday, 27 June, NSRI Wilderness duty crew were activated following a request for assistance from a local mom reporting her 2 children and their grandfather trapped by the Spring high ...