From 27 March to 26 August this year, the NSRI conducted 269 operations around the country. These included assisting 202 people in distress, performing 46 medical evacuations, 44 vessel tows and 27 transfers, and rescuing 20 animals in distress. A ...
Kelly-Ann Irving, NSRI volunteer and deputy station commander at Station 26 (Kommetjie), has trained with the South African Whale Disentanglement Network (SAWDN) to rescue whales using specialised techniques and equipment. We chat to her fascinating work... ...
NSRI salutes our volunteers on the frontline of the fight against Covid-19. Saria van As, Infection Prevention & Control Coordinator at George Hospital, and shore controller at Station 23 (Wilderness), tells her story.Before the pandemic, my role at the hospital ...
Almost 1 300 NSRI volunteers provide essential services at 41 inland and coastal rescue bases across South Africa. Here’s how your donation could help them save lives.In order to do their work safely in even the toughest conditions, NSRI crew ...
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 ...
NSRI salutes our volunteers on the frontline of the fight against Covid-19. Meet Dr Tomé Mendes, a registrar in General Surgery at Groote Schuur Hospital (GSH) in Cape Town, a Class 1 coxswain, and duty coxswain for Charlie crew at ...
Sunday 9 August is celebrated as Women’s Day in South Africa but it is also duty day at the National Sea Rescue Institute’s (NSRI) base in Strandfontein in Cape Town and that is where you will find most of the ...
TAKE IT FROM THE SKIPPER, YOU CAN BE ANYTHING YOU WANTGO. FOR. IT.It is Carmen Long’s simple motto when it comes to achieving what had not been done before.That is certainly what this full-of-life 52-year-old did when she was presented ...
Sara Jane Smith of St Francis Bay in the Eastern Cape is the National Sea Rescue Institute’s (NSRI) sole female station commander, in charge of Station 21.“The only time I know I am the only female in this role is ...
Founded in 1967, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) volunteers live Madiba’s principles every minute of every day in service of South African communities, saving lives on South African waters. In Mandela Month, the organisation is celebrating the contributions of ...
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