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 ...
You can help Sea Rescue to win a donation of R200 000 by sending a sms saying 'care NSRI' to 32512The DSTV 'Care More' campaign closes on the 28 October 2011 so there is no time to lose. You can ...
Danie and Alsabe Erasmus, from Heather Park, George, were the lucky winner's of the two nights accommodation at the Protea Hotel Franschhoek. The Garden Route's Life Boat Circle ran a competition for new member enrolments, entry forms were published in ...
The simulator turns upside down in the pool - and the Sea Rescue volunteers must swim out.Four Sea Rescue Helicopter Unit (SRHU) crew members from Port Elizabeth traveled to Cape Town for a weekend of training with the local ...
A huge school of dolphins entertained motorists on the coastal road between Bakoven and Hout Bay this morning. They stayed in more or less the same place for a few hours seeming to feed. ...
On Sunday, 16 October 2011 Station 9, Gordons Bay, was invited to attend the service of one of our volunteer members. Pastoor Leon van Rensburg is a Trainee Crew Member and the Minster of AGS Lig & Lewe.After the service ...
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