An 11-year-old girl, originally from South Africa, died in England on Saturday when she was flung from an inflatable boat at a high speed and struck the motorboat. Mari-Simon Cronje was at a... Read more
Tragedy struck eight foreign students today when they went swimming at the main beach in Campsbay. The incident occurred at 16:00 when two of the bathers encountered some strong streams off... Read more
Fifteen-year-old Emma Pringle who fractured her spine in a diving accident was due to undergo surgery on Tuesday, at the Charlotte Maxeke Hospital in Johannesburg. On Monday, Pringle’s cousi... Read more
Drowning – how do we decrease the risk for our children in South Africa? It is fast becoming one of those topics where someone you know, or someone in your group of friends or family, knows... Read more
Two males in their early twenties decided to brave the cold water of Melkbos strand and go for a mid day swim at the main beach. Local surfer and resident chef at a well known sea side resta... Read more
Paramedics, Police Search and Rescue officers and eThekwini Metro firefighters responded to a report of a ship on fire in Durban Harbour. Emergency Service Personnel arrived at the scene to... Read more
ER24 and the Life LSU were called to Cape Town Harbour for a female patient that had fallen approximately five metres in a ships hull. When paramedics arrived on the scene they assessed the... Read more
A fisherman who was airlifted off a lobster trawler after a boom collapsed on the vessel on Friday has died, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) said. The NSRI launched a rescue operati... Read more
Icy water and the misleading depth of the Vals River with its whirlpools were believed to have led to the death of a Kroonstad man after he jumped into the water to fetch a suitcase. “... Read more
On one of the coldest days of the year so far, it seemed that it was meant to be when bystanders came across the body of a twenty nine year old man hanging from a tree by a rope, with his bo... Read more
