File image: RocketAt approximately 19h05, Tuesday, 05th April, NSRI were alerted to the yacht Rocket, with 9 persons onboard, 4 females and 5 males, one crewman from Cape Town and the remaining crew from the Vaal Dam, sailing from ...
At 17h27 on Monday the 4th of April, NSRI Wilderness duty crew were activated following multiple eye-witness reports of a man being swept out to sea by rip currents while swimming at Stander se Gat, between Leentjiesklip and Wilderness.NSRI rescue ...
At 10h11 on Wednesday the 30th of March, NSRI Port Alfred duty crew were activated following reports of an aircraft accident on the Kowie River, approximately 15 kilometers up river.A sea rescue craft was launched and on arrival on the ...
SIMON'S TOWN:At 15h30, Saturday, 26th March, NSRI Simonstown duty crew were activated following reports of a yacht appearing to be in difficulty off Boulders Beach, Simon's Town.Eye-witnesses had observed the yacht for a while where crew onboard appeared to be ...
WITSAND:At 16h45, Friday, 25th March, NSRI Witsand duty crew were activated following reports of a boat appearing to have suffered motor mechanical failure at the Bar of the Breede River Mouth, Witsand.A concerned eye-witness feared for the safety of the ...
SEA RESCUE – National – Saturday, 26th March. Light aircraft makes emergency landing, Plettenberg Bay. Two children missing, presumed drowned, Richards Bay: RICHARDS BAY:At 13h53, Saturday, 26th March, NSRI Richards Bay duty crew, while at sea on a training exercise ...
HOUT BAY:At 19h42 on Saturday the 12th of March, NSRI Kommetjie duty crew were alerted following multiple eye-witnesses along the Atlantic Coastline reporting a red distress flare sighted between 4 and 5 nautical miles off Kommetjie.NSRI Kommetjie duty crew were ...
At 12h40, Sunday, 13th March, NSRI Shelly Beach duty crew were activated following eye-witness reports of red distress flares fired from a capsized boat approximately 2 nautical miles off Margate Beach.The Sea Rescue craft Spirit of Dawn and Caltex Challenger ...
At 14h40 on Friday 11 March Simon's Town Sea Rescue volunteers freed a Juvenile Cape Gannet that was trapped in coils of barbed wire near the False Bay yacht club. Noticing that the bird was in difficulty as they were ...
At 11h17 on Saturday the 12th of March, NSRI Simon's Town and NSRI Kommetjie duty crews, while on a routine stand-by in Fish Hoek Bay at the There and Back Hobie-Cat Regatta, at Fish Hoek Beach, were alerted by the ...
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