BOATERS AND PADDLERS:Launching your craft in fine weather could see you fighting through a major storm only hours later and we therefore urge anyone making use of the sea and on inland waters to carefully check weather forecasts before launching ...
In mid-August a Hout Bay Grade 5 boy, Vernio Hendricks, was swept off the rocks while playing with friends at the foot of the Sentinel.This week WaterWise educator, Ernesta Swanepoel, went to the school to teach the children about water ...
The volunteers at Vaal Dam were checking their rescue boat Harvey’s Fibreglass, after its refit, when Station Commander Dick Manten got a call for help from Anton Hugo. After mooring the boat to a jetty, the Johannesburg University Island caretaker ...
Last weekend two training coxswains from Richards Bay, Jaco vd Walt & Fred Erasmus with crew, Werner Smit, Ernst Bohm & Chrissy vd Walt, travelled to Durban to participate in a theory and practical introduction to handling a 4metre rescue ...
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