Off-duty NSRI crew members helped save a man that was swept out to sea at Dolphin’s Beach in Jeffreys Bay on Sunday, 31 October.<\/p>\n
According to Craig Lambinon, NSRI spokesperson, the NSRI’s Grant Grove and Dean
\nWegerle contributed in preventing\u00a0a drowning yesterday.<\/p>\n
Grant is an NSRI EOC (Emergency Operations Centre) duty controller, a coxswain
\nand rescue swimmer at NSRI Strandfontein and a rescue swimmer at the NSRI
\nAirborne Sea Rescue Unit, while Dean is the NSRI Events and Community
\nFundraising Manager and\u00a0a coxswain and rescue swimmer at NSRI Table Bay.<\/p>\n
“They are on a field trip visiting\u00a0NSRI stations and assisting at NSRI
\nEvents.\u00a0Having just completed a successful NSRI Oyster Bay Boere Dans
\nfundraising event, and while heading towards the Wild Coast, they stopped at
\nJeffreys Bay to take a walk on the beach,” Lambinon said.<\/p>\n
On Dolphin Beach, in front of the NSRI Jeffreys Bay rescue station,
\nthey noticed a man caught in a rip current.<\/p>\n
“He was swimming in the direction of the beach, but caught in a rip current, he
\nwas gradually being swept\u00a0further out to sea,” said Grove, “and we
\nrecognised the danger that he was in.”<\/p>\n
Grant grabbed the\u00a0NSRI Pink Rescue Buoy that is stationed at that beach “NSRI Jeffreys Bay duty crew were activated to a drowning in progress at 16:50 <\/span><\/p>\n “The man was at first reluctant to accept my “I passed the pink rescue buoy to him which he By that stage NSRI Jeffreys Bay crew were arriving on the scene but the man was “NSRI commend the swift reaction of Grant and Dean. 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\non it’s pole, while Wegerle alerted the\u00a0NSRI Jeffreys Bay duty crew and
\nNSRI’s\u00a0EOC.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nand they responded. Grant swam about 100 meters out to sea where he
\nreached the casualty – a local man aged in his 40’s,” Lambinon said.<\/p>\n
\nhelp, but I could see that he was getting tired and despite
\nswimming in the direction of the beach. The rip current was slowly pulling him
\nfurther out to sea,” added Grove.<\/span><\/p>\n
\ngrabbed a hold of and\u00a0he held onto it tightly. The relief that I saw on
\nhis face for having that\u00a0floating object to hold onto, was obvious. I gently coached him to tread water while I swam parallel\u00a0to the
\nbeach, pulling him along with me while he held onto the pink buoy, until we
\nwere free of the rip current and then we used the incoming waves and we reached
\nthe shoreline safely.”<\/span><\/p>\n
\nnot injured and he required no further assistance.<\/p>\n
\nNSRI Pink Rescue Buoy since the 2017 inception of the NSRI Pink Rescue Buoy
\nprogram,” said Andrew Ingram, NSRI Drowning Prevention Manager.<\/p>\n
\nnot patrolled by lifeguards.<\/p>\n