Multiple incidents around our coastline and on inland waterways has highlighted an urgent appeal from NSRI, Police and Law Enforcement agencies, lifeguards and the Emergency Services, to recreational water uses - bathers, boaters, paddlers, sailors and fishermen to have safety ...
Even the most experienced water users get into trouble. We chatted to avid kayak fisherman Shaun Reid about his recent experience of being stranded offshore after his fishing kayak started taking on water, and the valuable lessons he learnt from ...
Fatal drownings in St Lucia and Port Edward ...
At 15h41, Sunday, 11 December, NSRI Oyster Bay duty crew were activated following reports from Fire and Rescue Services of a drowning in progress at Eerste Rivier Beach, Tsitsikamma, in dense fog and rough seas. ...
At 05h45, Friday, 9 December, NSRI Hartbeespoort Dam duty crew and SRU (Strategic Response Unit) were activated following reports of a vehicle semi-submerged in the Hartbeespoort Dam, near to the Dam wall. ...
Extensive search efforts for a teenager close to Monwabisi on the False Bay coast. ...
A Search, rescue and recovery operation is continuing on the Jukskei River, in the Sandton vicinity, where at least 18 people, part of a group from various churches who were taking part at a baptism, may have been swept away ...
It was a busy Sunday for NSRI crew out in Mossel, Bay, KZN's North Coast and St Lucia. ...
A search is continuing for an adult fisherman, from George, who went missing on Saturday after a wave swept him off rocks from the shoreline while he and a fellow fisherman were reportedly collecting bait East of Gwaing River Mouth ...
At 09h53, Monday, 31 October, NSRI Table Bay duty crew were alerted to prepare to patient evacuate a 29 year old Ukranian crewman suffering a medical complaint onboard a tug boat motor vessel towing an oil refinery vessel. ...
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