Keryn van der Walt, NSRI Port Alfred duty coxswain, said: At 15h10, Wednesday, 26 November, NSRI Port Alfred duty crew were activated following reports by a Multi-Security guard, patrolling East Beach, of a drowning in progress at East Beach, Port Alfred.
NSRI rescue swimmers and our NSRI rescue vehicle, Multi-Security and Gardmed ambulance services, responded directly to the scene while our NSRI duty crew responded to our NSRI Port Alfred station 11 rescue base where the NSRI rescue craft Rescue 11 Alpha was launched.
It was reported that there were 3 persons in distress in the surf zone, caught in rip currents while swimming.
On arrival on the scene one local male teenager, age 19, was found to have been able to get to shore safely unassisted and he was not injured.
A second local male teenager, age 19, was assisted ashore by a local male surfer, Good Samaritan, who had reached the teenager in the surf zone and was able to rescue the teenager safely to the beach using his surfboard.
That casualty was suffering non-fatal drowning symptoms. He was taken into the care of Gardmed paramedics.
A third local adult male, age 25, was still caught in rip currents and he had been swept towards the back breakers.
The NSRI rescue craft, while approaching towards the man still in distress, noticed that he was disappearing under water at the back breakers.
On the arrival of our NSRI rescue craft we were able to rescue the man onto the NSRI rescue craft and we brought him to the Beach where, in a serious condition, he was taken into the care of Gardmed paramedics.
The 25 year old man, in a serious but stable condition, and the one teenager, in a stable condition, were both transported to hospital by Gardmed ambulance, where they are recovering in the care of doctors and nurses.
They are expected to make full recoveries.
The Multi-Security patrol officer who raised the alarm, the swift response of NSRI, Gardmed ambulance services and the Good samaritan surfer, is commended for contributing to saving the lives of the 2 casualties.
Betty Cricket
Van is getting married, but he and his fiancee have never done the deed – in fact he\’s never been with any woman before. He\’s getting more and more nervous as the big day approaches, so he confides in his friend. His friend says \’No worries man. I\’ll come by the honeymoon suite before you guys get there, and I\’ll hide behind the curtain, and I\’ll whisper instructions to you.\’
\’You\’d do that for me?\’
\’Sure thing man!\’
So the wedding day arrives, it was a lovely service (so I was told, I wasn\’t there myself) and Van\’s friend sneaks into the honeymoon suite as promised and hides behind the curtain.
Van and his new wife arrive in the room, get settled on the bed, and things are getting steamy.
But Van is still super nervous and his tummy is bubbling, so he murmers to his wife, \’Listen babe, I\’m just gonna go to the bathroom quick. I think it\’s that wors roll from earlier.\’
\’Sure thing babe.\’
So Van goes into the bathroom, and he\’s taking quite a long time. And his wife is starting to feel the nerves herself. And it\’s getting worse. She can\’t hold it in. But she doesn\’t want to go after he\’s gone and totally ruin the mood. So she looks around and finally finds a shoebox. Quickly, she does her business in the shoebox, and she shoves it under the bed just as Van comes back from the loo.
Van gets back on the bed and they go at it again. But after a minute or so Van smells something not so lekker.
\’What\’s that smell?\’
\’Nothing babe,\’ he wife tries to assure him.
\’No man there\’s definitely something not so lekker in this room!\’VSo Van starts looking around the room, in the corners, in the cupboard, and finally he looks under the bed, and sees the shoebox.
He pull it out, and opens it up, and in horror he shouts \’Sies! Daar\’s kak in hierdie doos!\’
And from behind the curtain his friend yells, \’NEE MAN, DRAAI HAAR OM!\”
Take Away
Did you knowthis about South Africa? South Africa celebrates its annual Heritage Day on 24 September. On this day, South Africans get together to celebrate their diverse cultures, traditions and beliefs. You’ll most likely find people enjoying a braai (barbecue) and dressed in traditional garb.