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SURVIVAL SWIMMING  | Published: 5 December 2022

Pop into a free pop-up Survival Swimming lesson

All children deserve to be taught basic water safety skills: this is the goal of the NSRI’s free pop-up Survival Swimming lessons, happening at certain pools near you. ...

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TRAINING  | Published: 5 December 2022

“The most dangerous type of rescue”

Highly skilled NSRI volunteers perform the majority of medical evacuations at sea in South Africa. Medevac veteran Ian Gray tells us why this work is so risky. ...

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DROWNING PREVENTION  | Published: 5 December 2022

Surprising facts about inland drownings

It may be called the National Sea Rescue Institute, but the NSRI also works hard to prevent inland drownings – the most common kind. ...

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RESCUE BASES  | Published: 5 December 2022

Base Showcase: 50 Years of Station 21 (St Francis Bay)

This female-led station has been an integral part of the community for 50 years. ...

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RESCUES  | Published: 5 December 2022

Search continuing at Jukskei River

A Search, rescue and recovery operation is continuing on the Jukskei River, in the Sandton vicinity, where at least 18 people, part of a group from various churches who were taking part at a baptism, may have been swept away ...

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RESCUES  | Published: 28 November 2022

Incidents in Mossel Bay, Knysna, North Coast KZN, St Lucia

It was a busy Sunday for NSRI crew out in Mossel, Bay, KZN's North Coast and St Lucia. ...

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SAFETY ALERT  | Published: 26 November 2022

SEA RESCUE – STRAND – Friday, 25 November. Shark Alert - Strand:

SHARK ALERT: NSRI and the City of Cape Town (CoCT) are appealing to bathers, paddlers, surfers and sail boarders to be cautious in the Strand vicinity where a large whale carcass has been located close in-shore, on Friday afternoon, 2 ...

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 | Published: 21 November 2022

Gqeberha – 5 safe after boat capsizes

At 09h04, Friday, 18 November, NSRI Gqeberha duty crew were activated following reports of a boat capsized at Noordhoek. ...

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RESCUES  | Published: 14 November 2022

SOUTHERN CAPE – Sunday, 13 November. Search for missing man

A search is continuing for an adult fisherman, from George, who went missing on Saturday after a wave swept him off rocks from the shoreline while he and a fellow fisherman were reportedly collecting bait East of Gwaing River Mouth ...

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SURVIVAL SWIMMING  | Published: 10 November 2022

KEEP SUMMER FUN BY LEARNING SURVIVAL SWIMMING: Western Cape Region

The National Sea Rescue Institute’s (NSRI) Survival Swimming lessons have returned to the Sea Point Pavilion Municipal Swimming Pool after an extended winter break. ...

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