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 ...
Sunday 11th September 2011.NSRI Durban's volunteer duty crew were activated at 12h28 following reports of a drowning in progress in the surf at The Cutting, near Durban.The NSRI Durban's volunteer duty crew prepared to launch a sea rescue craft and ...
Sunday 28th August 2011:At 14h42 our NSRI Wilderness volunteer duty crew were called out following reports of 2 fishermen trapped on Flat Rock, between Wilderness and Kleinkrans. They had been cut off from the mainland by the spring high tide ...
Sunday 11th September 2011.At 03h39 Sunday 11th September our NSRI Strandfontein volunteer duty crew were called out following reports of a 51 year old angler, from Ottery, who was swept off rocks while fishing with two family members at Monwabisi ...
Paternoster – Thursday 08th September 2011.At 07h37 our NSRI Mykonos volunteer duty crew were called out following eye-witness reports of a yacht firing red distress flares 200 meters off Paternoster.Our NSRI Mykonos volunteer crew responded towing our sea rescue craft ...
KOMMETJIE and HOUT BAY Thursday 08th August 2011:At 01h51 our NSRI Kommetjie volunteer duty crew were activated following reports of 3 men on the snoek fishing boat SLOW BAS reporting to have a snapped throttle cable of their boat and ...
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