WITSAND – Friday, 21 October, 2011: Yacht GULLIVER’S life-raft found.Pictures for media use can be found on the Sea Rescue Flickr site. Please credit NSRI.Attie Gunter, NSRI Witsand station commander, said:'At around 5 a.m. This morning (21 October, 2011) local ...
KNYSNA – Friday, 14th and Sunday, 16th October, 2011. 2 youngsters rescued – capsized dinghy, a suspected hoax call and sadly a local cyclist dies following a heart attack:At 18h00 (Friday, 14th October) NSRI Knysna volunteer duty crew were activated ...
PORT EDWARD – Saturday, 15th October, 2011. 2 rescued during whale rescue:At 17h43 NSRI Port Edward volunteer duty crew were activated following reports of a whale wedged in between rocks and trapped at Grannies Pool, Port Edward.NSRI Port Edward volunteer ...
VAAL DAM – Saturday, 15th October, 2011. Yacht capsizes and in a separate incident jet-ski crashes into wall:At 14h01 (Saturday, 15 October) the NSRI Vaal Dam volunteer duty crew were activated following eye-witness reports of a yacht capsized near Groot ...
KOMMETJIE, PORT ALFRED, STILL BAY, PORT EDWARD, ST FRANCIS BAY, DURBAN, KNYSNA.Thursday, 13 October, 2011.Port Alfred:On Monday, 10th October, at 18h37, NSRI Port Alfred were activated to assist a boat with fuel starvation out at sea. NSRI volunteer Keryn van ...
On Tuesday 11 October Spirit of Safmarine III was called out to assist the 8 metre fishing boat 'Bennie 1'. Her engines had failed 3-4 miles South of Cape Point with 6 persons on board, but she was in no ...
Six volunteers have been awarded their sea crew badges at our Agulhas rescue base. Congratulations to Waldo Strydom, Richard Gouws, Francois Viljoen, Allan John Rabie and Travis Moon. Charmaine Moon was awarded her Shore Controller badge. Congratulations to all! ...
Hout Bay:At 13h11 (Sunday, 9th October) NSRI Hout Bay were activated following a Mayday distress call from the charter (seal watching) boat NAUTICAT, with 42 passengers and 4 crew onboard, reporting to have hit a rock in the water at ...
At 10h30 on Friday 16 September our Durban volunteers were called out to assist the yacht 'Acu-Acu ' off the South Breakwater as they were been blown towards the rocks.Megan II was launched and a crewman was transferred onto the ...
Tuesday 13th September 2011.At 00h55 we received a call from the 41 foot Riviera motor yacht Sweet Caroline reporting to be off-shore of Protea Banks, on the KZN South Coast, with fishing net tangled in her motor propellors.Our duty crew ...
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