NSRI’s Pink Rescue Buoy initiative has grown exponentially since its introduction in November 2017. To date more than 750 Pink Rescue Buoys have been installed around South Africa and 59 lives have been saved by their use. The buoys have ...
Water-safety instructors are excited to be back in classrooms and have managed to reach an impressive number of students, even with social-distancing regulations. But they’ve also had to adapt to a very different teaching environment, explains Drowning Prevention manager Andrew ...
What safety measures are now officially required for swimming pools?The SABS (South African Bureau of Standards) SANS 10134 states:Every private swimming pool that can hold more than 30 cm of water should be surrounded by a child-proof fence and also ...
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 ...
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