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SA, FRENCH NAVIES IN RESCUE EXERCISE.
South African and French maritime rescue services join forces off the southern Cape coast this week for a major disaster simulation exercise. The exercise will seek to create a challenge of the magnitude of the sinking of the cruise liner Oceanos off the Wild Coast 10 years ago. Spokesman for the defence force's Task Force West, Lieutenant-Colonel Piet Paxton, said on Monday it would also draw in the National Sea Rescue Institute and the disaster management services of the Overberg municipality. Residents of Struisbaai are likely to see the South African torpedo recovery vessel the SAS Fleur in action as well as an air force Dakota and Oryx helicopter. From the French military base on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion will come a C160 aircraft and the patrol boat the FNS La Rieuse. Paxton said the ...
- SEA RESCUE STAFF STYMIED BY CASH CRUNCH.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire November 21, 2003 700+ words
(From SAPA (South African Press Association)) The cash-strapped National Sea Rescue Institute on Friday received...on the water, because sea rescue was by its nature reactive...no financial grants to sea rescue. Not one cent has been...
- Elderly woman presumed dead after being attacked by great white shark off South...
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire November 15, 2004 700+ words
...efforts," Darren Zimmerman of the National Sea Rescue Institute told the South African Press Association. Witness said the shark was...at least 6 meters (yards) long. National Sea Rescue Institute spokesman Craid Lambinon said crews...
- SA, FRANCE PRACTISE SEA RESCUE.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire December 5, 2001 700+ words
An extensive sea rescue exercise is in progress off the Southern Cape coast involving both South African and French rescue authorities, SABC radio news reported on Wednesday. They are simulating the sinking of a vessel and the rescue...
- AIR, SEA RESCUE EXERCISE FOR CTN.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire March 1, 2002 700+ words
...rescue services will take part under the umbrella of the South African Search and Rescue Organisation, Sasar, which is responsible...metro rescue, the National Ports Authority, the National Sea Rescue Institute, the SA Navy, the police's waterwing, and...
- South African divers free trapped whale.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire July 31, 2005 700+ words
(From Panafrican News Agency (PANA) Daily Newswire) Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) divers on Saturday risked their lives to save the life of a large whale that was entangled in rope near Cape...
- British sailor missing off South African coast.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire July 27, 2005 700+ words
...falling overboard a yacht off South Africa's Eastern Cape coast Tuesday, rescue team sources said Wednesday. National Sea Rescue Institute spokesman Craig Labinon said two crew members, a man and a woman from New Zealand and Germany, were also stranded...
- Georgetown: Body recovered along South African coast may be Georgetown student.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire September 9, 2008 700+ words
...half kilometers from where Terrance went missing, Ray Farnham, commander of the Plettenberg Bay Station of the National Sea Rescue Institute, said Monday afternoon. He had been spotted about 200 meters off the coast, but was caught in a strong current...
- Rescuers recover one body in South African boat wreck.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire July 4, 2005 700+ words
(From Panafrican News Agency (PANA) Daily Newswire) Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The National Sea Rescue Institute in South Africa is expected to call off its search for the remaining crew member of the ski boat that went missing in...
- South Africa Donates Life Jackets.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire May 21, 2005 700+ words
...jackets, whose collection was mobilised by the South African Sea Rescue Institute, were yesterday handed over to the National...safety on water bodies in East Africa. Acting South African ambassador Mohamed Cassimjee handed over the jackets...
- British expedition leader swept out to sea off South Africa.
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire July 29, 2008 700+ words
...missing man but the South African authorities said...Africa's National Sea Rescue Institute said today...spokeswoman said: "South African rescue services...the family and the South African National Sea Rescue Institute, who...
