Today volunteer WaterWise Instructors, and one full time instructor, greeted 400 learners from Hyacinth Primary as they arrived at the Sea Point Pavilion. The pupils were taken to the grassed area well away from the water, and given a refresher ...
Sky lanterns Picture Andrew Ingram/NSRINSRI are urging the public not to set off Chinese Lanterns on Guy Fawkes and not to set off red distress flares and to ensure your pets are kept safe and comforted by their owners ...
At this time of year, everyone is preparing for the summer holiday season.Most drownings occur through ignorance. The highest incidence of drownings are visitors from out of town, who are not familiar with the area.Sea Rescue hopes to use any ...
NSRI Director Viola Manuel today visited a WaterWise lesson at Agterwitzenberg VGK Primary, a farm school near Ceres. After watching WaterWise Instructor Eoudia Erasmus presenting water safety to the foundation phase children Viola joined in teaching the children the emergency ...
A big thank you to Ogilvy Cape Town who have recognised our WaterWise Academy’s milestone of teaching over 800 000 children how to do CPR with this billboard that they designed at no charge. Also thanks to Tractor Outdoor who ...
On Friday 11 September, the day before a teenager drowned at Camps Bay, teachers and pupils from Nkqubela Primary school in Robertson visited Camps Bay beach. The excited children ran straight down to the waters edge - unaware that the ...
Our WaterWise Academy Instructors, from as far afield as Soweto, Eshowe, Gugulethu and Ceres, have all gathered in Grabouw for the annual WaterWise conference. Kicking off with a team building bread making session the team then moved into teaching techniques ...
Thank you to Cape Town's Ogilvy & Mather team for the work that they are doing on the NSRI BeBright awareness campaign. Wearing bright colours makes you so much easier to see when you are out paddling. And if you ...
We are proud to announce that the Princess Charlene of Monaco Foundation South Africa has sponsored Sea Rescue’s WaterWise Academy in Eden.H.S.H. Princess Charlene of Monaco said, “ Some of my present and future projects for my Foundation are underlining ...
NSRI's Wilderness based WaterWise Academy Instructor, Liza Wigley, sent us some photographs that she took during the water safety classes that she gave last month. Teaching children about water safety is Liza's passion. You can see it in the children's ...
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