Western Cape Tourism Minister, Alan Winde, officially opened the extended Sea Rescue boatshed in Witsand today and Executive Mayor, Clr Emor Nel, blessed the 8.5m rescue boat 'Breede Rescuer'. Both guests paid tribute to the incredible effort of the volunteers ...
On Saturday 31 October at 2pm Port Elizabeth NSRI has organised a reunion for ex Station 6 crew members. A braai has been organised and many stories will be told around the fire. If you served at Station 6 and ...
On 28 October 2015 the Witsand Sea Rescue boat, Breede Rescuer, will be officially launched and welcomed to her newly build boat shed.After the successful rescue of four sailors from the capsized yacht Gulliver in 2011, when three Witsand NSRI ...
Yesterday, Saturday 25 October, the Port Elizabeth Sea Rescue base, named the'Archie & Alta Rabie Rescue Base” was officially opened by Mrs Alta Rabie.The revamp to PE's Sea Rescue station is the first since the late 1970's and was generously ...
Thank you to the CPUT Survival Centre who were kind enough to sponsor a personal survival training course for Sea Rescue volunteers. The course, run over two days, includes a theory and pracal module and teaches candidates everything from abandoning ...
The opening of the The Archie & Alta Rabie Rescue Base, Station 6 Port Elizabeth:NSRI Station 6, Port Elizabeth, will celebrate the completion of the revamped boathouse at 11am on Saturday the 24th of October 2015, in the first of ...
Please watch a video made by Sea Rescue on rip currents on our Vimeo page. The six minute clip shows you how to recognize rip currents, what to do if you are caught in one, what do do if you ...
Cleeve Robertson took the opportunity, whilst on a station visit, to personally thank Roelof Camminga from Island View Shipping for the support that he has shown over the years by arranging the annual IVS Golf Day in aid of Station ...
NSRI CEO Dr Cleeve Robertson is on a grand tour of Sea Rescue stations chatting to the crews, getting ideas to improve Sea Rescue, listening to stories, looking at equipment and getting to know operating conditions at the different bases.So ...
The two sailors from Llama Lo, Jean Sitruk, 65, and Kyle Castelyn, 20, arrived safely at the Table Bay Sea Rescue base in the V&A Waterfront this morning.The ship which rescued them from the boats tender that they spent 2 ...
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