This is an extremely good description of what a person looks like when they are drowning. It is written by a former Coast Guard rescue swimmer in the Coast Guard’s On Scene Magazine.Put aside 5 minutes and read the whole ...
NSRI Operations Director, Allan Cramb, will be retiring at the end of June.Allan dedicated his entire adult life to NSRI. He joined Station 2 Bakoven as a founder member at the tender age of 16. He then served as coxswain ...
During the hugely successful Mossel Bay multi-station exercise, the local crew had the chance to work with Knysna’s floating stretcher. It was love at first sight. The need for a similar stretcher was obvious and the Mossel Bay crew decided ...
Sea Rescue volunteers must do a fire fighting course to qualify as sea going crew.Early last Saturday morning volunteers from Table Bay, Bakoven, Hout Bay, Melkbosstrand, Yzerfontein, Mykonos and Kommetjie met at Eskom’s Fire Fighting Training Facility at the Koeberg ...
The Sea Rescue Face to Face team is working at the Bayside shopping centre in Milnerton this week. If you are in the area please give them your support. They are doing a wonderful job raising funds for NSRI, helping ...
Proficiency in the use of Life Rafts was introduced to Sea Rescue to ensure that crews on the larger rescue vessels would know exactly how to react should their rescue boat have to be abandoned at sea, and how best ...
Making NSRI displays at exhibitions and fundraising events interesting is always a challenge. Each of the NSRI regions have different ways of doing things, but most will use a mannequin at some stage ... Sea Rescue’s gear is after all ...
Being a Sea Rescue volunteer is a huge time commitment. We all live close to our stations, and for our on-duty period we need to be able to respond to the base in under 10 minutes. The rescue teams are ...
On Saturday the 14th of May, students from the NMMU business studies programme came down to station 6 to hand over a cheque. They had collected R1200.00 for Sea Rescue as part of their Social Responsibilities programme.The money was put ...
A large, all night sea rescue exercise, was hosted by NSRI’s Mossel Bay station commander Dawie Zwiegelaar and a huge team of volunteers during Saturday night.The venue of the exercise was in the vicinity and surrounds of Mossel Bay, both ...
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