The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) encourages South Africans to use National Wills Week, from 14 to 18 September 2026, to draft or update their wills and consider leaving a legacy gift that will help save lives for generations to come. ...
National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) Hout Bay volunteer crew recovered a Hout Bay Yacht Club (HBYC) racing buoy at sea on Saturday, 5 September, after it broke free from its mooring and was swept out into Hout Bay in gale ...
NSRI Wilderness responded, together with Police and emergency services, to a report of a man trapped in the Touw River, Wilderness, in the early hours of Friday, 4 September. ...
NSRI Gqeberha responded to assist in a rescue and recovery operation on Wednesday evening, 2 September, after a truck went into the water at Coega Port, Gqeberha, with the driver trapped inside. ...
A body has been recovered on Strand Beach on Thursday morning, believed to be that of one of the men who went missing during Wednesday's tragic incident, as Police search efforts continue for the remaining missing man. ...
Police divers are continuing search efforts at Strand Beach for two local men who went missing in the surf zone after being swept out to sea by rip currents on Wednesday, 2 September. ...
From lifeguards patrolling a new coastal resort to water safety teams educating communities across South Africa, and a fast-response rescue vessel at NSRI’s Table Bay rescue station, now powered by upgraded outboard motors, Suzuki Auto South Africa’s partnership with the ...
A quick-thinking group of local paddlers, fishermen and bystanders came together to save a man's life after he was swept upstream by a spring tide on the Umgeni River, Durban North, before NSRI Durban and emergency services arrived on scene ...
When a local paddler fell out of his surf-ski off Roman Rock yesterday, a quick-thinking Good Samaritan and our NSRI Simons Town crew stepped in, with an unexpected audience of five humpback whales. ...
Dog rescued after being swept 200 metres out to sea off Pollock Beach, Gqeberha ...
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