In two separate incidents on Monday, 6 April, and Tuesday, 7 April, National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) Plettenberg Bay crews assisted injured patients at Robberg Nature Reserve and Keurbooms Beach. ...
Monday, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) Table Bay duty crew activated following a request for assistance from a local 35-foot sailing yacht. The vessel had reported motor mechanical failure approximately 1 nautical mile south of Robben Island and requested ...
NSRI Gordons Bay duty crew, while conducting routine training at NSRI Gordons Bay station 9 rescue base, launched the NSRI rescue craft Spirit of Surfski following a request for assistance from the skipper of an open 5 meter fishing craft ...
NSRI Mykonos duty crew were activated following reports of a boat capsized in the surf zone at Spreeuwalle, Paradise Beach, near to Langebaan in Saldanha Bay. ...
NSRI Bakoven duty crew and CoCT (City of Cape Town) water rescue network were activated following an eyewitness reporting, to NSRI EOC (Emergency Operations Centre), a drowning in progress at Clifton 2nd Beach. ...
NSRI Port Nolloth duty crew were placed on alert following reports of a fishing vessel at anchor North of Alexander Bay with rope fouled around the vessels motor propellors. ...
BCMM (Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality) lifeguards, while on duty at Gonubie Beach, were alerted by a man running towards the lifeguards, raising the alarm, reporting a drowning accident almost a kilometer upstream on the Gonubie River. ...
NSRI Wilderness and NSRI Mossel Bay duty crews were activated following reports of a local fisherman reportedly swept off rocks by waves in the vicinity of Voelklip, Herolds Bay, while shoreline angling. ...
NSRI Wilderness duty crew were activated Wednesday following reports of a drowning in progress at Herolds Bay. ...
In Plettenberg Bay, the sound of a siren drifting across town carries a meaning that locals understand instantly. It signals that the NSRI are responding to an emergency at sea. Cars pull over, conversations pause, and people turn their attention ...
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