The Hout Bay deep sea rescue boat, MTU-Nadine Gordimer's refit at Tree Tops Marine just outside of Cape Town is going well.She is being stripped at the moment; the rudders are being worked on and the hull is being cleaned ...
SIMON'S TOWN Wednesday 11th April 2012. Body recovered in harbour:NSRI Simon's Town were called out following reports of a body found floating entangled in rope between two boats in Simon's Town harbour.According to Darren Zimmerman, NSRI Simon's Town station commander ...
Vincent Tee, the owner of Caltex Wavelands in Jeffreys Bay, kindly donated the use of his Car Wash facility to the Crew of Station 37, Jeffreys Bay, for Saturday morning 7 April 2012.After being up most of the night searching ...
WaterWise, the educational arm of Sea Rescue, aimed at teaching water safety to children, asks parents to be particularly vigilant over the Easter weekend.The long term weather prediction for most of the country during the weekend is for rain. WaterWise ...
Over the past weekend some of Richards Bay crew were introduced to handling a four metre RIB in a controlled environment. They were put through various training exercises including surf launching and beach approaches on the seaward side of Pelican ...
Massmart recently donated 400 plastic armchairs which will be used in the training rooms at our Rescue Bases around the country. In most instances our bases do not have space for a permanent set up and so these stackable chairs ...
Lyonesse, the 10 metre Brede Class lifeboat, which will serve the NSRI at Mossel Bay was today sailed from Cape Town harbour to Hout Bay where the electrical work as well as interior woodwork will be done. This will take ...
The MTU-Nadine Gordimer, Hout Bay's deep sea rescue boat, has been taken out of the water at the Royal Cape Yacht Club. She will spend the next four months having Volvo D6 engines put in, a complete rewire, a respray ...
On Saturday 24th of March a combined training exercise between Station 5, Durban and the SAAF’s 15 Squadron was conducted seaward of the old Bluff Whaling Station.The object of the exercise was for the flight crews to get experience when ...
Geoff McGregor, NSRI East London station commander, said: 'At 09h30 (Sunday, 25th Match) NSRI East London volunteer sea rescue duty crew were activated following reports of a drowning in progress at Eastern Beach, East London.'Our NSRI East London crew, Fire ...
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