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 ...
Update:We'd like to say a very big thank you to Benjamin Giliomee who raised R11 000 for NSRI Knysna by cycling the Pick ‘n Pay Argus Cycle Tour this year on his single speed chopper. Well done Ben. Ben Giliomee ...
As members of the International Maritime Rescue Federation ( IMRF ) and as such NSRI recently donated one of our 5.5m semi-rigid boats to the Uruguay Sea Rescue Service (ADES). Getting it to Uruguay has proved to be quite a ...
About 6 years ago after a few drowning’s in the area, a community member and a former Sedgefield Lions Club member Karen Kritchmer proposed starting a life Saving Club to help locals and tourists to our beautiful coastline. During this ...
Our Richards Bay base was recently donated some Gardena hoses and connections from the Husqvarna Group which they installed this weekend. The new set of hoses and connections help to maintain the base and keep the equipment clean. New connections ...
Anyone can save a life. All it takes is a donation.The new NSRI awareness campaign, done Pro-Bono, by Ogilvy Cape Town, has been released.A big thank you to all who donated their time to make this amazing idea come to ...
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