SEA RESCUE – NSRI The following NSRI Stations responded to incidents around the country over the past weekend: STATION 26, Kommetjie. STATION 8, Hout Bay. STATION 10, Simonstown. STATION 4, Mykonos. STATION 5, Durban. STATION 1, Headquarters. STATION 2, Bakoven ...
Regional WaterSafety team leader for the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal Valerie Barlow lives in Port St Johns and has worked for the NSRI for three years. She’s passionate about teaching water safety to children – especially in rural areas where ...
Drowning is a major cause of accidental death in South Africa, claiming the lives of more than 600 children each year. So when a child uses the skills that they’ve learnt in the NSRI’s Drowning Prevention programme to save a ...
42-year-old sailing instructor and father of seven Mncedisi ‘Tata’ Hlalatu became an NSRI volunteer nearly a year ago. And in early 2020, he joined the drowning-prevention team as a water-safety educator for the Richards Bay area. I started volunteering at ...
Andrew Ingram, head of Drowning Prevention at NSRI, explains how his team has adapted to keep working under lockdown restrictions.On 26 March 2020 South Africa went into level 5 lockdown, and for Sea Rescue’s water-safety team it was the end ...
The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) is appealing for public caution following the South African Weather Service (SAWS) forecasting high, rough seas and gale force winds expected along the coastal regions of South Africa over the coming days.Localised flooding, storm ...
NSRI safety alert:National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) are appealing for public caution around the coast as we are now in the full moon Spring tide phase which peaks on Sunday, 5 July, bringing higher than normal Spring high tides and ...
NSRI are appealing to bathers, paddlers, body borders and surfers to be cautious along the Southern Cape coastline and the Eastern Cape coastline, in particular around the coastline of Plettenberg Bay and between Mossel Bay and Jeffreys Bay, due to ...
NSRI are appealing to bathers, paddlers and surf boarders to be cautious along the Southern Cape coastline, in particular around the coastline of Plettenberg Bay, due to a high number of reported White shark sightings.The increase of sharks at this ...
The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) is the charity that saves lives on South African waters. Our goal is to prevent drowning through rescue operations, education and prevention initiatives. NSRI is not a law enforcement agency.Our organisation is totally reliant ...
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