Water-safety instructors are excited to be back in classrooms and have managed to reach an impressive number of students, even with social-distancing regulations. But they’ve also had to adapt to a very different teaching environment, explains Drowning Prevention manager Andrew ...
What safety measures are now officially required for swimming pools?The SABS (South African Bureau of Standards) SANS 10134 states:Every private swimming pool that can hold more than 30 cm of water should be surrounded by a child-proof fence and also ...
Regional WaterSafety team leader for the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal Valerie Barlow lives in Port St Johns and has worked for the NSRI for three years. She’s passionate about teaching water safety to children – especially in rural areas where ...
Drowning is a major cause of accidental death in South Africa, claiming the lives of more than 600 children each year. So when a child uses the skills that they’ve learnt in the NSRI’s Drowning Prevention programme to save a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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