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EDUCATION  | Published: 6 August 2020

Meet the volunteer: Mncedisi Hlalatu, Station 19 (Richards Bay)

42-year-old sailing instructor and father of seven Mncedisi ‘Tata’ Hlalatu became an NSRI volunteer nearly a year ago. And in early 2020, he joined the drowning-prevention team as a water-safety educator for the Richards Bay area. I started volunteering at ...

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EDUCATION  | Published: 6 August 2020

Schools may be closed, but water safety education continues

Andrew Ingram, head of Drowning Prevention at NSRI, explains how his team has adapted to keep working under lockdown restrictions.On 26 March 2020 South Africa went into level 5 lockdown, and for Sea Rescue’s water-safety team it was the end ...

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DROWNING  | Published: 28 July 2020

NSRI ERECTS TWO PINK RESCUE BUOYS AT MABULALA DAM WHERE TWO COUSINS DROWNED

NSRI CEO Dr Cleeve Robertson estimates that there are 2000 fatal drownings each year in South Africa. Six hundred of these are children.Many of these drownings are preventable, if only there had been proper prevention initiatives or the right equipment ...

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COMPETITION  | Published: 8 April 2020

Sea Rescue colouring-in competition for the whole family

Here is a colouring-in competition for the whole family … some are more complicated than others - so you can choose the level of difficulty that suits you! You could be a lucky winner of a Sea Rescue goody-bag for ...

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EDUCATION  | Published: 27 January 2020

Beware of Rip currents.

This picture shows very clearly what rip currents look like from above. The water flows in towards the beach over sandbanks (It is a lighter colour and the waves break evenly over these areas). The water that hits the beach ...

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EDUCATION  | Published: 13 December 2019

Sea Rescue Water Safety:

Andrew Ingram, Sea Rescue Prevention Services spokesman, said:Sea Rescue’s national water safety team of instructors have again smashed records, this year teaching water safety to over 570 000 children in South Africa.Our nineteen, full-time professional water safety instructors visit schools ...

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EDUCATION  | Published: 27 November 2019

SEA RESCUE – NATIONAL – Wednesday, 27 November. NSRI SUMMER WATER SAFETY:

NSRI’s safety tips for the summer holidaysThe NSRI wishes everyone a safe summer holiday and we urge the public to adopt a water safety mindset around coastal and inland waters.Our rule number one, for a safe experience at the ...

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EDUCATION  | Published: 2 November 2019

Sea Rescue Summer Water Safety

NSRI’s safety tips for the summer holidaysThe NSRI wishes everyone a safe summer holiday and we urge the public to adopt a water safety mindset around coastal and inland waters.Our rule number one, for a safe experience at the beach ...

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EDUCATION  | Published: 11 October 2019

NSRI Pink Rescue Buoy Programme

Sea Rescue presented our NSRI Pink Rescue Buoy emergency flotation project at International Lifesaving’s biannual ‘World Conference on Drowning Prevention’ (WCDP) Conference in Durban this week. NSRI’s Drowning Prevention manager Andrew Ingram addressed delegates from around the world explaining where ...

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EDUCATION  | Published: 14 June 2019

Winter Holiday Safety Tips

The winter holiday is here and we all want to make sure our children have fun, but it is important to remember a few water safety tips during these holidays :* always supervise children when they near water* never swim ...

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