In September, 24 participants from 10 countries travelled to NSRI headquarters in Cape Town to take part in the Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s (RNLI) Leaders in Lifesaving course, co-hosted for the first time with the NSRI. Each attendee arrived with ...
Fifty-five years ago, two young men began journeys with the NSRI that neither could have imagined would span more than half a century. ...
Earlier this year, 196 young people began a journey to become stronger water-safety leaders in their communities. Now, four of them have taken a significant step forward by completing an intensive five-day lifeguard readiness programme with the NSRI.A Journey That ...
When floodwaters rise, rescuers face an environment that can change in seconds. Water moves with relentless force, familiar landscapes disappear beneath it, and hazards are often hidden below the surface. ...
When someone steps forward to help in an emergency, the quality of their training can make all the difference. For the NSRI, ensuring that volunteers, crew members and communities receive the highest standard of first aid training has always been ...
For many young people, the ocean is something to admire from afar. For students at the Lawhill Maritime Centre, however, it represents opportunity, purpose and the possibility of a career. ...
When the NSRI began training lifeguards along the Wild Coast in 2020, the objective was to strengthen water safety capacity in coastal communities where resources are often limited. Five years later, the impact of that work can be seen not ...
When NSRI Regional Operations Manager Danie Verwey hit the road for a two-week crew development course up the West Coast, he didn’t expect a moment so moving it would reshape his perspective on what it means to “save lives, change ...
The NSRI’s Volunteer Support Centre (VSC) training team, last month, joined forces with Station 46 in Storms River for a maritime extrication refresher session, set high above the forest floor on the platforms of Tsitsikamma Canopy Tours. ...
When NSRI Regional Operations Manager and Class 1 coxswain Dean Wegerle put his name forward for “a spot on a French Navy ship”, he didn’t quite expect to find himself on a 98-metre warship, eating three-course meals and learning celestial ...
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