Yesterday, Station 19 Richard's Bay, held the official blessing ceremony of their new 4.7m rescue boat 'Grindrod Rescue'Station Commander, Dorian Robertson, explained that the new vessel, sponsored by Grindrod in collaboration with Island View Shipping and the local shipping fraternity ...
NSRI have dealt with a number of incidents over this weekend.On Friday, 04th December, NSRI Gordons Bay launched to assist a mother and her son in difficulty on a canoe 500 meters off-shore of Gordons Bay harbour.A bystander had launched ...
Picture Jacques Marais.On 1 December 2015 the Two Oceans Aquarium released 53 juvenile loggerhead sea turtles, two green turtles and two hawksbill turtles into the ocean off Cape Point. The release took place around the 300m contour, 30 nautical ...
Wilderness hosted their local ER unit doctor, Dr Gustav Lemke, from George Hospital, at their rescue base for training last night.Torsten Henschel reports,'We covered drowning emergency response, CPR and AED simulations using dummies of adults and children to give all ...
Tonight's the night. Wavescape is hosting a special evening at Tiger's Milk in Muizenberg. Comedy by Rob Van Vuuren (from Corne en Twakkie) starts at 7pm and he starts auctioning for charity from 7.30pm.Proceeds go to Shark Spotters, NSRI, Waves ...
This morning the City of Cape Town held an Emergency Services Parade which wound it's way from the Cape Town Stadium to Camps Bay. Various services were represented and NSRI showed the flag by having Table Bay's rescue vehicle participate ...
Today Karen Kennedy & Ian Livermore, two Coxswain’s from Station 5 Durban, took the time to give a WaterWise talk at Hillcrest Primary School.Both volunteers completed the WaterWise Academy program on the NSRI eLearning to be able to give the ...
Andrew Ingram, Sea Rescue volunteer with 35 years service, and NSRI marketing manager, talked to Classic FM's Tamara LePine-Williams about water safety. Click play below to listen to the interview.[audio mp3='http://www.nsri.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/WaterSafety-Classic-Lifestyle-with-Andrew-Ingram-2.mp3'][/audio] ...
Free for NSRI crew : Titanic – The Artifacts Exhibition has opened in Cape Town and will be at the Watershed, opposite the aquarium in the V&A Waterfront until 06 March 2016. The organisers have kindly offered each Sea Rescue ...
This weekend we host another Coxswain Leadership course. Thank you to these men who took leave from work and are giving up time with their families. From left to right: Davide del Fante (Table Bay), Stephen van den Berg ...
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