Chinese Lanterns have come under scrutiny in the United Kingdom and yesterday, Sunday 19th June, Sky News reported appeals by UK authorities urging the public and tourists to discontinue setting off Chinese Lanterns into the sky.They are lightweight frames covered ...
Happy Birthday Allan!!Allan joined Station 2 Bakoven at 16 years old as a founder member. He served as coxswain from 1972 until 1986 when he stood down from active service after he broke his back while on a rescue. In ...
A Special Forces team from Langebaan, on exercise around the coast, were escorted into Knysna by the volunteers on Wednesday. The two 15 metre RIBS were met outside the Heads by our Knysna crew on board the Jaytee III, and ...
Port Elizabeth based WaterWise educator, Marcus Oshry, visited the Umzingisi Foundatation who work with children talented in sports. The foundation give’s children life skills ... and helps them through their schooling by providing extra tuition and a sporting program.Marcus went ...
On Wednesday 15th June at 19h22 NSRI Witsand volunteers were activated following reports of a yacht in unknown difficulties off Cape Infanta with 4 crewmen on board.The wife of the skipper Greg West, reported to an NSRI Knysna volunteer that ...
Station 8 Hout Bay had their mid-year bash last night. The huge storm that passed over Cape Town causing widespread chaos did nothing to dampen the spirits of the Hout Bay volunteers and their guests from flanking stations. In fact ...
Each week NSRI's six WaterWise educators are out visiting schools around the country to teach children about water safety, how to avoid danger, what to do in an emergency and who to call for help.This is story is from Mamelodi ...
The winner of the May NSRI online-newsletter subscriber competition is Suné Schäffler. She walks off with a dinner voucher at the One and Only Hotel’s Reuben’s restaurant to the value of R400.If you would like to go into the draw ...
Ek het die voorreg om gereeld skole te besoek. Die WaterWise Werkswinkels het gewoonlik 'n natuurlike aantrekkingskrag en dis hier wat 'n mens duidelik die positiewe gesindheid en belangstelling van die personeel kan opmerk.Die opmerking wat egter gereeld na die ...
On Saturday the Bakoven duty crew had an exercise with the SA Navy’s Queen Modjadji, a Heroine class submarine, that caused quite a stir off Camps Bay and Clifton.Bakoven’s duty coxswain, Bruce Davidson, said that it was a huge success ...
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