Our rescue crew are all unpaid volunteers who have their own careers and are on standby for emergencies. Once they get the call, they drop whatever they are doing to respond to the person in need.We call out our crew ...
Captain John Richardson, one of the group of master mariners who took that crucial decision in 1966 to supply NSRI's very first rescue craft 'Snoopy', passed away on 7th July 2014 after a short illness.John was a keen member of ...
A ski-boat launches from Shelly Beach at first light.It was a busy, and long, start to the July holiday season for the Station 20 crew. Our rescue base opened at 04h00 every day from Wednesday to Saturday last week ...
Our inland crew at Station 25 Hartbeespoort Dam hosted their graduation ceremony on Saturday night. 40 guests, including the President of the Transvaal Yacht Club and the NSRI CEO, gathered at Thatch Haven Country Lodge outside Brits .Besides awarding crew ...
This gorgeous picture was taken from the race control boat about 5 minutes after the start of the fun race.We were blessed yesterday with the most stunning mid-winter’s day in Durban – warm sunshine, with a gentle breeze from ...
It was a day of great excitement for the group of trainee helmsmen on the surf course at Wilderness. The surf was huge and only the most experienced of the Wilderness coxswains took the tiller arms of the very fast ...
Today Nautic donated two rapid response trailers to Sea Rescue. The top quality off-road trailers will be used for rapid response calls allowing our crew to set up a communication centre at the scene of an emergency. The trailers come ...
Below are some photos sent to us by our crew from the Knysna base. The seas are so big that the base's storm gates have washed away and the boat shed has been completely flooded.NSRI are urging extreme caution to ...
At 15h42, Friday, 13th June, NSRI Kommetjie rescue crew were activated by the Transnet National Ports Authority following eye-witness reports of red distress flares sighted off-shore of Kommetjie.We launched our sea rescue craft SPIRIT OF WINELANDS and our sea rescue ...
On Sunday the 8th of June, Station 20, Shelly Beach, and Station 32, Port Edward, participated in this year’s World Ocean Day celebration.This international day has become an annual event on the lower South Coast celebrated by all those who ...
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