The blessing of the new 4.2 metre rescue boat Project Group Rescuer which is based at Station 37, Jeffreys Bay, took place this morning.Project Group is a group of women, based in Johannesburg, who organise fundraising events to give back ...
A big thank you to the Grade 6E class of Reddam House who lovingly made hampers of goodies for our Simon's Town rescue crew as part of their Mandela Day project. The donations were delivered this morning by Mrs Kathleen ...
On Monday 3 August, Station 10 Simon's Town's volunteers assisted during a joint training exercise with Cape Medical Responce, Disaster Management and Fire and Rescue. Everyone worked together at the False Bay yacht Club with the exercise being a partially ...
KOMMETJIE:Ian Klopper, NSRI Kommetjie station commander, said:'At 00h09, Saturday, 01st August, NSRI Kommetjie were alerted to a fire at the Shell Service Station, Kommetjie, where NSRI Kommetjie have a temporary sea rescue base while building of the permanent sea rescue ...
Our magazine has undergone a big change: we’ve gone smaller.Postage on our mailing list of 72 000 is getting pricey, and we hate to waste money. By changing the format we’ve managed to save paper, postage and ink. It’s essential ...
Two new rescue boats, Spirit of Surfski 3 and Grinrod Rescuer, both 4.7m Gemini made rigid inflatable boats (RIBs), left yesterday with our boat transporter to Durban and Richards Bay. The boats, which are designed for inshore surf rescue work ...
On Sunday our Durban crew practiced anchor drills, boat handling within the surf, rope work and setting up a tow line. Trainee coxswains worked on deploying crew within the surf and recovering crew from within the surf zone.This training is ...
Tom and Maureen Clarkson of Yzerfontein with former Station Commander, Rudi RogersWe spent the day with our crew from Station 34 Yzerfontein, their neighbours from Station 4 Mykonos, Rotarians, members of the local community and a number of donors ...
Thank you to Cape Town's Ogilvy & Mather team for the work that they are doing on the NSRI BeBright awareness campaign. Wearing bright colours makes you so much easier to see when you are out paddling. And if you ...
A generous businessman has left two multimillion-pound Ferraris to the UK Sea Rescue service, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution in his will.The two 1960s cars, valued at £2 million and £6 million, were a bequest from Northamptonshire-basedRichard Colton, a prominent ...
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