Captain Dave Powell, one of the longest serving members of the Society of Master Mariners South Africa passed away on Wednesday 9th May 2012.Dave Powell trained at General Botha after which he went to sea and qualified as a master ...
Wednesday 16 May 2012A bladder has been set up on First beach Clifton and according to news reports fuel will be pumped off the Eihatsu Maru today.Tuesday 15 May 2012The cable from the tug Smit Amandla to the Eihatsu Maru ...
Bakoven's new rescue boat is nearing completion. On Saturday, after the Bakoven volunteers aboard Spirit of Rotary Table Bay had helped to evacuate 19 men from the Eihatsu Maru in Clifton, the new 6.5 metre RIB was towed from Granger ...
On 12 May 2012, at 06h15 NSRI Table Bay duty crew were called-out by the Transnet National Ports Authority following reports of a fishing boat running aground at Clifton.On arrival on-scene our NSRI mobile units searched for the vessel from ...
Crayfish boats on the West Coast were caught unawares late yesterday afternoon when a thick mist moved in extremely fast all the way up the coast.Mykonos Sea Rescue were put on standby as the weather moved in and eight crayfish ...
The work on the Hout Bay Sea Rescue boat, MTU-Nadine Gordimer, is progressing well according to Station Commander Brad Geyser, who visited Tree Top Marine to check up on his rescue boat with his deputy Lyall Pringle, this week. The ...
Sea Rescue features in the Grade 7 Afrikaans text book. Drop us a line if you have seen us featuring in other educational text books! ...
One of the companies that has stood by Sea Rescue over many years has been Engen.Originally, Mobil donated to NSRI and when they changed their name to Engen (around 1989), the tradition of supporting Sea Rescue was continued and extended ...
Over the past weekend five crew from Durban and five from Richards Bay attended the Proficiency in Liferafts course presented at the Unicorn training centre in Durban.The intense two day course was presented by Lancelot Magabeni (Senior Seamanship Instructor), covered ...
This weekends spring tides were something to behold. The SuperMoon’s gravitational pull had a spectacular effect on the high and low tides ... so much so that Mark Samassa from Bakoven sent a few pictures to show the challenge of ...
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