NSRI Bakoven duty crew and CoCT (City of Cape Town) water rescue network were activated following an eyewitness reporting, to NSRI EOC (Emergency Operations Centre), a drowning in progress at Clifton 2nd Beach. ...
NSRI Port Nolloth duty crew were placed on alert following reports of a fishing vessel at anchor North of Alexander Bay with rope fouled around the vessels motor propellors. ...
BCMM (Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality) lifeguards, while on duty at Gonubie Beach, were alerted by a man running towards the lifeguards, raising the alarm, reporting a drowning accident almost a kilometer upstream on the Gonubie River. ...
NSRI Wilderness and NSRI Mossel Bay duty crews were activated following reports of a local fisherman reportedly swept off rocks by waves in the vicinity of Voelklip, Herolds Bay, while shoreline angling. ...
NSRI Wilderness duty crew were activated Wednesday following reports of a drowning in progress at Herolds Bay. ...
In Plettenberg Bay, the sound of a siren drifting across town carries a meaning that locals understand instantly. It signals that the NSRI are responding to an emergency at sea. Cars pull over, conversations pause, and people turn their attention ...
NSRI Simons Town duty crew were alerted Monday following reports of a local sailing vessel broken her moorings and adrift, unmanned, and at risk of grounding on rocks, at Simons Town. ...
NSRI Durban duty controllers were alerted Monday by a ship’s agent to a bulk cargo motor vessel requesting a medical evacuation scheduled for approximately 05h30 on Wednesday morning of a 32 year old male, from the Philippines, suffering an Injury ...
At 07h00, Sunday, 15 March, while NSRI had launched to provide logistics support to a group of jet-skiers we were activated when an NSRI trainee crew person noticed a swimmer in distress in the channel at Pelican Island. ...
NSRI Simons Town duty crew were activated Sunday following a request for assistance from a local yachtsman, a solo sailor, reporting that his sailing yacht had suffered rudder failure while sailing South of Cape Point. ...
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