Station 5 Durban found a structural problem on the deck of their RIB “MEGAN II” and needed to get it to Cape Town for urgent repairs. SUBTECH kindly put their hand up and at extremely short notice the NSRI volunteer ...
On Friday the 9th of May some of the Durban senior crew held a flare safety lecture at the Isipingo ski boat club. The talk explained the differences of each type of flare, their uses, and when one should use ...
Resilience is the ability to “bounce back and assume an original form”. Aside from providing our crew with theoretical and practical training, and then ensuring that they are physically fit for the task; it is important that we also prepare ...
This weekend Station 20 Shelly Beach launched and blessed their new 7.3m rescue boat, 'Spirit of Dawn'. The legacy that funded the boat was from the estate of the late Robert Duncan, in loving memory of his late wife Dawn.Robert ...
For the second year in a row, the NSRI Station 29 - ASR Team was invited to the monthly meeting of the 'Cape Town Rifles (Dukes)', at the Cape of Good Hope Castle, to give a talk about the NSRI ...
After 28 years of serving Sea Rescue Capt Gerry Staverees has retired.As a young Master Mariner in 1967 Gerry was among the group who put up the first funding to start the organisation that is today NSRI. From those early ...
The new 7.3m RIB, Spirit of Dawn, arrived at Station 20, Shelly Beach, yesterday.The level of excitement in the Sonny Evans Small Craft Harbour that houses the station was so high it was difficult to determine who was more excited ...
This morning, Shelly Beach's new rescue boat, Spirit of Dawn, was loaded onto a Hughcore truck for transport down to their base in KZN. She will have her official blessing ceremony on Saturday the 10th of May. Babcock Target Plant ...
Sea Rescue Operations Director Mark Hughes tells how choosing to wear a life jacket, in the days that it was not the norm, saved his life and the lives of the men that he rescued. ...
As a way of increasing the fitness levels of the crew at Shelly Beach, a number of them signed up for the weekly 5km Park/Run from St Mike’s beach to Uvongo Beach and back, running the first one last Saturday.Pioneered ...
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