Sean Devine, NSRI Ballito duty coxswain, said: On Sunday, 11 July, at approximately 10h24, while conducting routine training exercises off-shore of Tinley Manor, our duty crew were diverted to assist a jetski, approximately 1 nautical mile off-shore of Sheffield Beach ...
NATIONAL SEA RESCUE INSTITUTE (NSRI) MEDIA RELEASE:SEA RESCUE – NSRI – STATION 15, Mossel Bay. STATION 29 ASR (Airborne Sea Rescue)Tuesday, 25 May 2021 Yacht assisted - Mossel Bay & Patient evacuation off a ship - Table bayMOSSEL BAY:Andre Fraser ...
Cathrine Prentis, NSRI East London station commander, said: At 10h15, Friday, 21 May, NSRI East London duty crew were activated following a request for assistance from yacht Majimoto, that had been relayed by a fellow yachtsman to East London Port ...
Weather Safety Alerts:NSRI encourage boaters, paddlers, sailboarders, anglers, fisherman and coastal hikers to always check SA Weather Services weather alerts when preparing to go into and around the ocean.The approaching winter weather has seen a number of cold fronts over ...
NSRI are appealing to the public to not set off sky lanterns.While also posing a fire hazard, sky lanterns, particularly when launched around the coastline, are known to give the mistaken impression of red distress flares.At 18h21, Friday, 14 May ...
Andre Barnard, NSRI Hermanus station commander, said:A 66 year old Cape Town man has drowned after being swept away by currents at Grotto East at the lagoon mouth, near to Hermanus.It appears that the man had been walking at the ...
UPDATE:On Saturday, 15 May, NSRI Vaal Dam assisted Police divers, the SA Police Services, Midvaal Fire and Rescue Services and the South African Civil Aviation Authority to recover wreckage of a Robinson 44 helicopter submerged in the the Vaal dam ...
On Saturday, 8 May, NSRI ASR (Airborne Sea Rescue) and AGA helicopters (Aerios Global Aviation) was tasked by MRCC (Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre) to patient evacuate, to hospital, a 26 year old Indian crewman from a motor vessel deep-sea off-shore ...
Jan Hofman. NSRI St Lucia station commander, said:At 13h08, Sunday, 9 May, NSRI St Lucia duty crew were alerted following reports from a concerned public member, who was at the observatory tower at iSimangaliso Park, of a yellow sea-kayak paddling ...
In the first of a series of stories on NSRI bases around the country, we chat to a few crew members at Station 2 (Bakoven) to find out more about the base and its family of volunteers.Since its establishment in ...
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