Dick Manten, NSRI Vaal Dam station commander, said; “At 17h10 on Friday 16 December, our NSRI Vaal Dam volunteer rescue duty crew were activated following reports of a female injured North of the Vaal Dam following an accident involving a tyre tube on which the female was riding while being pulled by a ski-boat.
“It appears that the female had been injured while riding on the tyre tube.
“Our NSRI volunteer sea rescue duty crew responded to the scene in our NSRI rescue vehicle and on arrival on-scene found a 21 year old Johannesburg female suffering suspected spinal injuries.
“The female had already been removed from the water by friends and we treated her for spinal injuries securing her to a spinal board and an ER24 ambulance transported her to hospital in a stable.
“At 15h05 on Monday 19 December, our NSRI Vaal Dam volunteer rescue duty crew were activated to respond to off-shore of Denneysville where a man had swum out after his power boat which had been blown out into the middle of the dam during a severe thunderstorm. The man had been unable to reach his power boat but now found himself at the mercy of the weather bobbing around in the middle of the dam and exhausted.
“Fortunately he was wearing a life-jacket.
“His wife sent their garden maintenance worker after her husband, in a canoe, but the canoe had also been blown away.
“The alarm was raised and NSRI Vaal Dam launched our NSRI rescue craft and both men were rescued and brought safely ashore.
“No further assistance was required.
“Then at 16h00 on Monday 19 December, our NSRI Vaal Dam volunteer rescue crew were activated to respond to assist the 22 foot yacht MIZBEHAVING which was caught in the same thunderstorm and was being blown towards the dam wall with 2 men onboard.
“We launched our NSRI rescue boat and caught up with the drifting yacht 200 meters from the dam wall and took her under tow along with her two sailors, from Morehill, Benoni.”
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