National Sea Rescue Institution
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The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) is a voluntary non-profit organization
Non-profit organization
Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...

 in South Africa tasked with saving lives at sea. It consists of 32 coastal stations and 3 inland stations serviced by 980 volunteers equipped with 92 rescue craft and 27 vehicles. http://www.nsri.org.za/about

The NSRI works closely with other Search and rescue
Search and rescue
Search and rescue is the search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger.The general field of search and rescue includes many specialty sub-fields, mostly based upon terrain considerations...

 organisations in South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

, including the South African Search and Rescue Organisation, VEMA High Angle Rescue in KwaZulu Natal, the South African Navy
South African Navy
The South African Navy is the navy of the Republic of South Africa.-Formation:The South African Navy can trace its official origins back to the SA Naval Service, which was established on 1 April 1922....

 and the South African Air Force
South African Air Force
The South African Air Force is the air force of South Africa, with headquarters in Pretoria. It is the world's second oldest independent air force, and its motto is Per Aspera Ad Astra...

 to coordinate air-sea rescue
Air-sea rescue
Air-sea rescue is the coordinated search and rescue of the survivors of emergency water landings as well as people who have survived the loss of their sea-going vessel. ASR can involve a wide variety of resources including seaplanes, helicopters, submarines, rescue boats and ships...

 as well as rescue on land.

See also

  • South African Search and Rescue Organisation


Similar organizations around the world
  • Royal Netherlands Sea Rescue Institution
  • Royal National Lifeboat Institution
    Royal National Lifeboat Institution
    The Royal National Lifeboat Institution is a charity that saves lives at sea around the coasts of Great Britain, Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, as well as on selected inland waterways....

     (United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland)
  • Société Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer
    Société Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer
    The Société Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer is a French voluntary organisation founded in 1967 by merging the Société Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufragés and the Hospitaliers Sauveteurs Bretons...

     (France)
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbrüchiger
    Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbrüchiger
    The Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbrüchiger or DGzRS is responsible for Search and Rescue in German territorial waters in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, including the Exclusive Economic Zone.The headquarters and...

     (Germany)
  • Norsk Selskab til Skibbrudnes Redning
    Norsk Selskab til Skibbrudnes Redning
    The Norwegian Society for Sea Rescue was founded on 9 July 1891...

     (Norway, also called Redningsselskapet)

External links

  • NSRI homepage
  • The ASR, one of the 3 helicopter units of the NSRI
  • NSRI Station 2 at Bakoven
  • NSRI Station 8 at Hout Bay
    Hout Bay
    Hout Bay is the name of a coastal suburb of Cape Town, South Africa with a mix of neighbourhoods from the very rich to the very poor. It lies in a valley on the Atlantic Seaboard of the Cape Peninsula and is twenty kilometres south of the Central Business District of Cape Town...

  • NSRI Station 10 Simon's Town
    Simon's Town
    Simon's Town , sometimes spelled Simonstown; is a town in South Africa, near Cape Town which is home to the South African Navy. It is located on the shores of False Bay, on the eastern side of the Cape Peninsula. For more than two centuries it has been an important naval base and harbour...

  • NSRI Station 12 at Knysna
    Knysna
    Knysna is a town with 76,431 inhabitants in the Western Cape Province of South Africa and is part of the Garden Route. It lies 34 degrees south of the equator, and is 72 kilometres east from the town of George on the N2 highway, and 25 kilometres west of Plettenberg Bay on the same road.-History:A...

  • NSRI Station 14 at Plettenberg Bay
    Plettenberg Bay
    Plettenberg Bay, nicknamed Plet or Plett, is the primary town of the Bitou Local Municipality in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. As of the census of 2001, there were 29149 population...

  • NSRI Station 15 at Mossel Bay
    Mossel Bay
    Mossel Bay is a harbour town of about 130,000 people on the Southern Cape of South Africa. It is an important tourism and farming region of the Western Cape Province...

  • NSRI Station 19 at Richards Bay
  • NSRI Station 18 at Melkbosstrand
    Melkbosstrand
    Melkbosstrand is a coastal village and beach with just over 17000 inhabitants, located on the South West Coast of South Africa, 35 km north of Cape Town....

  • South African Search and Rescue Organisation
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