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AD CAMPAIGNS  | Published: 1 July 2013

Lots of fun at the Durban Boat Show

Station 5 Durban rescue crew Ashley St Clair-Laing, Richard Gibbs and Karen Kennedy were present for the lucky draw - and the winner of the ATG waterproof bag is Chantele Naidoo from Durban. Congratulations ! Pic: Brian St Clair-LaingStation ...

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NEWS  | Published: 1 July 2013

Massive fire in UK may have been caused by Chinese lantern

11:53am UK, Monday 01 July 2013'Vij Randeniya, chief fire officer at West Midlands Fire Service, told Sky News: 'We believe a Chinese lantern dropped onto some bales of plastic and, looking at CCTV, it would appear that was the cause.'Chinese ...

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NEWS  | Published: 1 July 2013

NSRI standby at the Burry Stander Sardine MTB Classic

Special thanks to our crew from Station 32 Port Edward assisted with the mountain bike ride in memory of Burry Stander on Sunday. John Nicholas (standing in front of the rescue vehicle) leads the crew ...

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NEWS  | Published: 1 July 2013

Durban volunteers jump for fun:

Ian Livermore reports on Station 5's skydiving course:A few months back a couple of Station 5 crew started taking about Skydiving. We decided to get a group together to do a first jump course. Having skydived before, I was tasked ...

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NEWS  | Published: 25 June 2013

FIRE FIGHTING FOR SHELLY BEACH AND PORT EDWARD:

Crew members from Station 20, Shelly Beach, and Station 32, Port Edward, completed a comprehensive fire fighting course last weekend.The theory module and qualifying examination was presented by Cal King from National Fire Investigating Services, who is also a trainee ...

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NEWS  | Published: 25 June 2013

Margi retires after 25 years volunteering:

Station 8‘s Margi Benson has retired after 25 years of voluntary work at Hout Bay where she has, for most of that time, been affectionately known as the station “mother.”Appointed by then Station Commander Ken Brady to help with the ...

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NEWS  | Published: 24 June 2013

Our thoughts are with Madiba:

Madiba and our CEO Ian Wienburg.Our thoughts are with Madiba, former President of South Africa and former Patron of NSRI. ...

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NEWS  | Published: 24 June 2013

Proficiency for Life Raft course:

NSRI volunteers attended a Proficiency for Life Raft course this weekend at the CPUT Survival Centre. Table Bay volunteer Kim Germishuys says that it was an awesome course. Everyone learned a lot with regards to how to launch different life ...

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NEWS  | Published: 16 June 2013

Carlos set free off Robben Island

Last week SANCCOB asked our crew at Station 3 Table Bay if we could assist them in releasing an Albatross back into the wild. We arranged for them to bring the bird to us on Saturday so that we could ...

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NEWS  | Published: 15 June 2013

Fire Fighting Course

This weekend Koeberg and Station 18 Melkbos hosted a fire fighting course for our volunteer crew from stations around the Cape. Thank you to everyone who gave up their family time to teach and to learn. It was icy cold ...

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