Police WPDS (Water Policing and Diving Services) are continuing in ongoing search efforts for a male teenager who went missing at Hawston Beach while swimming. ...
A local Good Samaritan, with the aid of an NSRI pink rescue buoy, has been commended for contributing to saving the life of a local teenager who was swept out of the Goukou River Mouth in an outgoing Spring tide. ...
Thoughts and care are with a local Knysna man and his family while he recovers in hospital following a para-kiting accident at Buffalo Bay Main Beach. ...
Gerrit Cloete, NSRI Port Alfred station commander, said: At 13h49, Sunday, 2 November, NSRI Port Alfred and our NSRI Port Alfred satellite rescue station, Kenton-On-Sea, duty crews were activated following eyewitness reports of a drowning in progress in the Kariega ...
Rowan Marais, NSRI Melkbosstrand station commander, said: At 10h25, Saturday, 1 November, NSRI Melkbosstrand duty crew were activated following eyewitness reports of a "pencil duck" boat suspected to have capsized in the surf zone between Melkbosstrand and van Riebeeckstrand. ...
Mark Dawson, NSRI Gqeberha station commander, said: On Tuesday evening, 28 October, at 18h00, NSRI Gqeberha duty crew were placed on alert to prepare for the medical evacuation of a 40 year old male Greek seafarer from a motor vessel bulk carrier. ...
Bevan Geyser, NSRI Bakoven station commander, said: At 16h39, Sunday, 19 October, NSRI Table Bay and NSRI Bakoven duty crews were activated following reports of a 7 meter local boat taking on water offshore 0.5 nautical miles of Sea Point ...
Simon Mc Donnell, NSRI Simons Town duty controller, said: At 10h48, Tuesday, 21 October, NSRI Simons Town duty crew were activated following an urgent request for assistance from a local surf-skier reporting 2 surf-ski's collided, during a down wind paddle ...
Spencer Oldham, NSRI Hout Bay station commander, said: At 11h10, Sunday, 19 October, NSRI Hout Bay duty crew were activated following an urgent request for assistance from a local fishing vessel 35 nautical miles South West of Hout Bay reporting ...
The ocean has been both workplace and teacher for Charl Maritz. Years spent leading up to commanding, and then commanding naval warships, taught him discipline, precision, and the weight of leadership. But it was the human side of rescue that ...
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