Saturday 29 October 2011:Wally Hyman's funeral took place on Friday and the scattering of his ashes took place in the Knysna heads on Saturday. Wally was a longtime member of the Knysna sea rescue station and will be sorely missed.Andrew ...
Anneline Kriel-Bacon, winner of the Miss World pageant in 1974, this week signed up as a Sea Rescue donor.Anneline has always loved the sea, and when she met the NSRI’s Face to Face team at the Bayside shopping centre in ...
Fortune Sibiya, our waterWise educator based in Mamelodi, took the project to a community that had not as yet been visited by one of our educators. This is her story:Pupils from Norridge Park a primary school, located at Eersterust near ...
Still Bay station commander Enrico Menezies watches Linda Elliott during the official naming of Colorpress Too.Still Bay’s new 4.2 metre rescue boat, Colorpress Too, was officially launched on Saturday. After short speeches by the Deputy Mayor, NSRI Regional Director ...
Wally Hyman 25 July 1947 to 22 October 2011Wally's funeral will take place this Friday 28 October 2011 at 10:00 at St Georges Anglican church in Knysna. His ashes will be scattered in the Heads on Saturday.Wally Hyman, long time ...
BOATERS AND PADDLERS:Launching your craft in fine weather could see you fighting through a major storm only hours later and we therefore urge anyone making use of the sea and on inland waters to carefully check weather forecasts before launching ...
WITSAND – Friday, 21 October, 2011: Yacht GULLIVER’S life-raft found.Pictures for media use can be found on the Sea Rescue Flickr site. Please credit NSRI.Attie Gunter, NSRI Witsand station commander, said:'At around 5 a.m. This morning (21 October, 2011) local ...
The volunteers at Vaal Dam were checking their rescue boat Harvey’s Fibreglass, after its refit, when Station Commander Dick Manten got a call for help from Anton Hugo. After mooring the boat to a jetty, the Johannesburg University Island caretaker ...
Last weekend two training coxswains from Richards Bay, Jaco vd Walt & Fred Erasmus with crew, Werner Smit, Ernst Bohm & Chrissy vd Walt, travelled to Durban to participate in a theory and practical introduction to handling a 4metre rescue ...
Life Boat Circle members were treated to a fascinating talk at Sea Rescue head office by three of Cape Town’s cold water swimmers, part of a group of five friends, who in February 2011 set a world record by swimming ...
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