When a handful of enthusiastic local boaters began talking about the need for a sea rescue station in Richards Bay in the mid-1970s, they could hardly have imagined the legacy they were creating. ...
NSRI Station 18, Melkbosstrand, marks its 30th anniversary this year, honouring three decades of volunteer service, innovation and community support that have helped save countless lives along South Africa's West Coast. ...
This Mandela Day, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) is honouring our more than 1 500 volunteers who give their time to keep South Africans safe in and around water, every day of the year. ...
When Western Cape Premier Alan Winde visited the NSRI Volunteer Support Centre in Cape Town in May, it was an opportunity to thank the volunteers who had helped communities devastated by flooding across the Western and Eastern Cape. ...
In a drowning emergency, minutes matter. ...
Easter weekend marked the close of the 2025/2026 NSRI lifeguarding season, wrapping up sustained effort from lifeguards across South Africa’s coastline. Looking back, Lifeguarding Operations Manager Rebecca Carter-Smith describes it as “one of our most demanding, but also one of ...
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. ...
The National Sea Rescue Institute exists to save lives at sea and on inland waters. Fire response is not part of its core mandate, and any involvement in wildfire incidents must take place within South Africa’s legal and emergency-response framework ...
At just 22 years old, Roxy Traylor has already led a life shaped by the ocean although, as she admits, it wasn’t love at first sight. ...
Along the wild, rugged coastline of the Eastern Cape, where cliffs drop into restless surf, and rivers slice through valleys, you’ll often find a familiar figure walking - or swimming - his way towards training. His name is Mdu Sizwe ...
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