WESTERN CAPEFriday, 11th December 2015Sea Rescue partners with Western Cape Education Department to teach children water safety:Sea Rescue’s educational initiative, The WaterWise Academy, is partnering with the Western Cape’s Education Department to teach children about water safety.“We are exploring ways ...
The Consul of France Mr Xavier d'Argoeuves and Vice Consul of France Mrs Gaelle Loir with NSRI Table Bay Station Commander Pat van Eyssen in the cabin of the sea rescue craft Spirit of Vodacom during their visit to NSRI ...
SUNDAY 6th DECEMBERA busy weekend experienced with NSRI call-outs continued on Sunday afternoon, 06th December, where NSRI Plettenberg Bay responded to a woman on a jet-ski in difficulty in the Keurbooms River Mouth. A rubber-duck with 2 men and a ...
(Adaption of the story – “Twas the night before Christmas” by Clement Clark Moore) It was a few weeks before Christmas, and all through Bakoven Beach the kids were stirring and parents where lazing.The presents where collected with care, in ...
Being a Sea Rescue Volunteer is very much like running a 100 Km or 100 Mile Trail Run. You get the privilege of experiencing some of the worlds most beautiful places, running in remote and awe inspiring areas ofter far ...
This weekend Sea Rescue Durban volunteers provided support at a number of rapids on the 50 Miler canoe race. Sea Rescue sat on a number of meetings with the organisers safety committee, and all the planning payed off as the ...
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 ...
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