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RESCUES  | Published: 20 August 2025

A game-changing rescue tool with critical first-response capabilities

Nature’s Valley is one of the most remote areas under the care of NSRI Station 14 in Plettenberg Bay. While its pristine shoreline attracts visitors, its isolation presents a unique challenge for rescue operations: it takes time for boats or ...

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VOLUNTEERS  | Published: 20 August 2025

Meet the volunteer: Gareth’s journey from Ceres pools to the open seas

Three years ago, Gareth Seroot was working in Ceres when his manager called a meeting that would change his life. ...

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VOLUNTEERS  | Published: 20 August 2025

Howard Godfrey: 55 years of service and counting

This month, the NSRI honours Howard Godfrey for an extraordinary milestone: 55 years of service, one of the longest of any volunteer currently active in our organisation. ...

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DROWNING PREVENTION  | Published: 20 August 2025

Celebrating World Drowning Prevention Day: inspiring stories, saving lives

Every story of survival, every lesson taught, and every community empowered adds to a collective mission: to ensure that preventable tragedies in water become stories of hope instead. ...

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 | Published: 20 August 2025

How the NSRI uses global rescue technology to save lives

This September, the NSRI will join the international maritime and aviation community in recognising the first-ever Cospas-Sarsat Global Search and Rescue Day. Observed on 10 September, this annual event will celebrate the life-saving work of the Cospas-Sarsat Programme — a ...

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EVENTS  | Published: 20 August 2025

Celebrating 58 years of courage and commitment: NSRI’s annual awards evening

This month, the NSRI gathered for its 58th Annual Awards Evening and AGM, a heartfelt occasion to honour the extraordinary volunteers and brave individuals who risk their lives daily to keep South African waters safe. ...

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RESCUES  | Published: 16 August 2025

Rescue crews respond to capsized boat off Shelly Point

Cedric Brown, NSRI Mykonos duty coxswain station, said: At 16h11, Friday, 15 August, NSRI Mykonos and NSRI St Helena Bay duty crew were activated following eyewitness reports of at least one man clinging onto a capsized boat offshore of Shelly ...

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RESCUES  | Published: 16 August 2025

NSRI – Durban – Saturday, 13 September. Update aircraft incident - a body located and recovered formal protocols to be observed:

During late Friday night, 12 September, Metro Police Search and Rescue, the SA Police Services and local security attended at Bay of Plenty Beach, Durban, where the body of a man was located and recovered. ...

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RESCUES  | Published: 14 August 2025

A local man is missing after being swept off West Pier while shoreline angling

Aidan Wood, NSRI Port Alfred duty coxswain, said: At 20h08, Wednesday, 13 August, NSRI Port Alfred duty crew were activated following reports of a local fisherman swept off rocks by waves into the Kowie River Mouth while shoreline angling at ...

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AWARDS  | Published: 13 August 2025

Courage and Service Takes the Spotlight at the 2025 NSRI AGM & Awards Evening

On Friday, 15 August, the NSRI hosted its 58th Annual Awards Evening and AGM at Lagoon Beach Hotel in Cape Town. The evening paid tribute to our dedicated volunteers and courageous individuals who risk their lives to save others on ...

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