A spring tide over the Christmas weekend would result in stronger waves than normal, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) warned on Tuesday. Spokesperson Craig Lambinon said as part of the NSRI’s WaterWise plan, holiday makers should take the following precautions when going to the beach: – Children should always be accompanied by an adult, [...]
KOMMETJIE SUNDAY 11th DECEMBER 2011. BOAT CAPSIZES, 5 RESCUED: At 11h42 on Sunday 11th December NSRI duty crew were called out for a 5 meter ski-boat capsized at chimneys channel at the Kommetjie slipway with 5 people onboard, an adult and four children. Our NSRI volunteers, the SA Police Services, Metro EMS, CMR (Cape Medical [...]
HOWICK 4 December 2011, 15:00 A 32 year old man has drowned at the Midmar Dam earlier this afternoon. The man’s friends had allegedly lost sight of him before alerting the authorities. A rescue team from the local police services and a diving unit responded to the scene. The man’s body was pulled from the [...]
The NSRI rescued two men after witnesses alerted them to their plight when their rubber duck was blown out to sea off Pringle Bay by strong off-shore winds on Saturday. When the NSRI was alerted, the rubber duck had already been blown 400m off-shore. NSRI Gordon’s Bay volunteer sea rescue duty crew launched sea rescue [...]
WELKOM 20 November 2011, 11:10 ER24 paramedics were called out to a dam at the President Brand mine earlier this morning were security guards found the bodies of three men floating in the water. According to paramedics at the scene the security guards found the men floating face down near the edge of the water. [...]
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No Comments »A 39 year old man has sustained a suspected back and neck injury earlier this afternoon while swimming at Santos beach in Mossel Bay. ER24 paramedics were called out to the beach and found the man being attended to by local life guards. The man was swimming with some friends when he allegedly hit his [...]
An Austrian tourist was rescued by an unknown man near Plettenberg Bay on Wednesday, said the National Sea Rescue Institute. “At 13h52, NSRI Plettenberg Bay volunteer duty sea rescue crew were activated following reports of a drowning in progress at The Island at Robberg Nature Reserve,” said spokesperson Craig Lambinon. Seventy-year-old Hildegard Weisseneder was reportedly [...]
[KEMPTON PARK – 01 NOVEMBER 2011 AT 16H30] A 15th month old infant is in a critical condition after she was found floating in the pool by the domestic worker at a residence in Pomona which falls in the Kempton Park area this afternoon. It is believed that the domestic worker found the child floating [...]
MIDDELBURG 21 October 2011, 16:00 A 3 year old boy nearly drowned in a swimming pool this afternoon. ER24 paramedics received a call that a child has fallen into a pool in the suburb of Kanonkop and had become unresponsive. The mother of the child had allegedly noticed her son floating in the pool and [...]
A man is in a serious condition after he allegedly dived into a hard surface on the main beach at Muizenberg. Bystanders pulled the man from the water and called the Western Cape Department of Health: Emergency Medical Services which assisted the man on the beach. While the paramedics from the department were busy stabilising [...]
