NSRI urges caution as equinox spring tide coincides with school holidays and Heritage Day weekend The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) is urging beachgoers, anglers and coastal hikers to take extra care this weekend. A full moon…
The South African Police Service (SAPS) in Alexandria, alongside multi-disciplinary teams, conducted an intensive operation to recover a body that washed ashore along a remote coastal section between Perdevlei and Woody Cape. Spokespersn…
The Port ALfred CBD is flooded following massive ocean swells after high winds, combined with the New Moon Spring Tide. NSRI urges caution during high winds and New Moon Spring Tides NSRI GQEBERHA and the emergency services responded to…
A wounded Eastern Cape man was hospitalised after a shark attack on Monday afternoon at Mngcibe beach near Mthatha. The man, believed to be in his 40s, is said to have been diving for crayfish before the predator attacked his upper body.…
The full moon Spring tide on 6 January could create dangerous conditions for beachgoers, the National Sea Rescue Institute has cautioned. NSRI spokesperson Craig Lambinon said, “Bathers and shoreline anglers around the coast will notice…
In the time this writer has been editing Talk of the Town there have been numerous community clean-ups, some of which Talk of the Town has initiated and participated in. For several consecutive years our Mandela Day project was a beach…
Sea Fever BY JOHN MASEFIELD I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by; And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking, And a grey mist on…
“It was very traumatic and it all just feels like a bad nightmare.” This is how a Cape Town man put it after his family was arrested in Muizenberg on Monday after his toddler ran on to the beach. Under the level 4 Covid-19 restrictions…
Search for missing 23 year old: Kariega Beach, Kenton on Sea According to Captain Mali Govender, an inquiry has been opened for investigation after a 23 year old male allegedly disappeared at Kariega Beach yesterday at approximately…
A Nike-clad human foot has washed up on an Eastern Cape beach — and police have no idea who it belongs to. Police in Port Alfred have opened an inquest docket for investigation after the left foot was discovered by a local resident on…
A dolphin found on the beach in the holiday town of Jeffreys Bay in the Eastern Cape was rescued and successfully released back into the ocean on Thursday. The dolphin was discovered by local residents on Kabeljous beach in a healthy…
A humpback whale has beached at Pipeline Beach‚ south of Durban‚ in the early hours of Tuesday morning. RescueCare spokesman Garrith Jamieson said that paramedics had responded to the scene and would be on standby while eThekwini…
