'At 09h04 (Sunday, 14 August, 2011) our NSRI Bakoven volunteer duty crew were activated following eye-witness reports of 2 surf-ski's, 1 double surf-ski with 2 men onboard and 1 single surf-ski with 1 man onboard, in difficulties about 100 meters ...
Update:The boat show is wrapped and we have many new friends in Johannesburg. We were blown away by the support and generosity of the people who stopped to talk to us. And there were hundreds of folk who took the ...
'At 11h00 (Wednesday, 10 August, 2011) our NSRI Durban volunteer duty crew were activated following a request for assistance from the ships agent of the container ship STOLT MOUNTAIN reporting one of the ships life-boats come loose and fallen off ...
Station 19 would like to thank Island View Shipping for once again making the annual shipping golf day possible.The event is organised by Rodney Cheek and Veronique Lamont from Voigt Shipping on behalf of the events main sponsor Island View ...
Three attempts were made this week to remove the vessel from the rocks and unfortunately all were unsuccessful. Two attempts took place during the rising spring tide. This gave us the highest tide but unfortunately heavy swell conditions resulted in ...
It is 20 years since the passenger cruise ship Oceanos sank on the 4th August 1991. On board were 581 passengers and crew. A Greek cruise liner, oceanos was sailing from Cape Town via east London to Durban. She sank ...
For a trip down maritime memory lane have a look at this historic news reel on the Seafarer rescue at Mouille Point. ...
Please go to < https://www.facebook.com/567CapeTalk?sk=notes >First click ‘LIKE’at the top of the pageThen click on the 567 Cape Talk / Dischem Foundation link below his pictureThe page comes up. Scroll down and click on “Meet the Volunteers”Scroll down to the ...
On Monday 01 August the tugs Smit Amandla and Smit Siyanda put a line on the Phoenix, aground at Sheffield Beach near Durban. They managed to pull her around a fair amount before the line parted. An attempt to get ...
For NSRI to win we need you to vote for them: SMS the word “strength” to 33922The rescue that they are being recognised for is 'Children Rescued from the Kaaimans Waterfall' (keyword “strength”)Station commander Hennie Niehaus from Station 23 Wilderness ...
News & Stories