NSRI Port Alfred crews responded to two serious incident on Saturday. The incidents occurred as follows:Gerrit Cloete, NSRI Station 11, Port Alfred duty coxswain, said:At 07h59, Saturday, 22 August, I activated our NSRI Port Alfred duty crew after I ...
MOSSEL BAY:Andre Fraser, , NSRI Mossel Bay station commander, said:At 15h26, Wednesday, 19 August, NSRI Mossel Bay duty crew were activated by the Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) following eye-witness reports of a small sailing yacht broken from her mooring ...
NSRI catches up with Two Oceans Aquarium curator Maryke Musson to find out what happened to the loggerhead turtle rescued by the Kommetjie crew.In July 2019, Station 26 (Kommetjie) crew painstakingly disentangled a seal and a loggerhead turtle caught up ...
NSRI salutes our volunteers on the frontline of the fight against Covid-19. Meet Dr Tomé Mendes, a registrar in General Surgery at Groote Schuur Hospital (GSH) in Cape Town, a Class 1 coxswain, and duty coxswain for Charlie crew at ...
We would not be able to achieve our objectives without the support of our sponsors and partners. We would like to show appreciation to DHL Express for their contribution to the NSRI as first a Platinum Partner and now a ...
Andrew Ingram, head of Drowning Prevention at NSRI, explains how his team has adapted to keep working under lockdown restrictions.On 26 March 2020 South Africa went into level 5 lockdown, and for Sea Rescue’s water-safety team it was the end ...
42-year-old sailing instructor and father of seven Mncedisi ‘Tata’ Hlalatu became an NSRI volunteer nearly a year ago. And in early 2020, he joined the drowning-prevention team as a water-safety educator for the Richards Bay area. I started volunteering at ...
June 2020 Shaun Stewart, KwaZulu-Natal Johann Steyn, Western Cape Michael Johnson, Gauteng Adri Clayton, Gauteng Elzeth van der Walt, GautengJuly 2020 Steven de Villiers, Gauteng Johannes du Plessis, Western Cape Hardus Prinsloo, Gauteng Ann Olivier, Gauteng Shaleen Billson, GautengAll the ...
NSRI salutes our volunteers on the frontline of the fight against Covid-19. Saria van As, Infection Prevention & Control Coordinator at George Hospital, and shore controller at Station 23 (Wilderness), tells her story.Before the pandemic, my role at the hospital ...
TAKE IT FROM THE SKIPPER, YOU CAN BE ANYTHING YOU WANTGO. FOR. IT.It is Carmen Long’s simple motto when it comes to achieving what had not been done before.That is certainly what this full-of-life 52-year-old did when she was presented ...
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