At approximately 14h40, Wednesday, 20 December, NSRI lifeguards, on duty at Clanwilliam Dam main swimming area, were alerted to a drowning in progress a distance away from the lifeguard protected area, on the far side of the dam. ...
NSRI Plettenberg Bay duty crew were activated following reports of a mass drowning in progress at Natures Valley, at a beach adjacent to the lifeguard protected beach. ...
The NSRI urgently requests boaters to refrain from attempting to navigate through the water hyacinth mats at Hartbeespoort dam, which currently extend over roughly 30% of the dam. ...
When Willemien Fourie and her family stopped at Kabeljous Beach in the Eastern Cape for a stroll, they could not have imagined the ordeal that was about to unfold – a near-fatal encounter with a treacherous rip current. Thanks to ...
At 11 am on Saturday, 16 December, at the Round Table Clubhouse on Middle Beach at Kenton-on-Sea, the new NSRI JetRib Spirit of Kenton was named and blessed. ...
As a high-stakes mountain rescue unfolded at sunset on Saturday 2 December, Station 8 (Hout Bay) were also called on to respond to a separate medical emergency, putting their capacity to the test. ...
The NSRI’s St Lucia station recently celebrated the handing over of a new JetRIB for its satellite at Cape Vidal, providing a much-needed improvement in rescue capacity for this remote location. ...
Supporters of Station 11 had a tee-riffic time for a good cause on 24 November at the 6th annual NSRI Port Alfred Golf Day. ...
The NSRI’s oldest station, located at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town, is all set for another 56 years of sea rescue excellence with the handover of a state-of-the-art rescue craft and the upgrade of its new base building. ...
After a recent rescue operation in which NSRI volunteers took four hours to safely extricate recreational boaters from water hyacinth, the NSRI is urgently requesting boaters to refrain from attempting to navigate through the water hyacinth mats, which currently extend ...
Rescue Operations