{"id":3674,"date":"2011-08-11T08:24:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T06:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/?p=3674"},"modified":"2011-08-11T08:24:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T06:24:33","slug":"unmanned-lifeboat-rescued-off-durban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/unmanned-lifeboat-rescued-off-durban\/","title":{"rendered":"Unmanned lifeboat Rescued off Durban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clifford Ireland, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"National Sea Rescue Institute\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nsri.org.za\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">NSRI<\/a> Durban station commander, said; &#8220;At 11h00 on Wednesday 10 August 2011 our NSRI Durban volunteer duty crew were activated following a request for assistance from the ships agent of the container ship STOLT MOUNTAIN reporting one of the ships life-boats come loose and fallen off the ship, which is at anchorage about 5 nautical miles off-shore of Durban&#8217;s Port, and reported to be unmanned and drifting away from the ship in the 20 knot Westerly winds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our NSRI Durban volunteers launched our sea rescue craft EIKOS RESCUER II\u00a0 and our off-duty NSRI volunteer Paul Dawson, who was at sea at the time aboard the skipper training craft ALICE, volunteered to go to the scene to investigate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On arrival on-scene Paul found the life-boat drifting, already 5 nautical miles from her ship, and in 2.5 meter choppy sea swells Paul put a line to the life-boat to hold her pending the arrival of our sea rescue craft.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On our arrival on-scene we put a tow-line to the life-boat and towed her to Durban&#8217;s Port where we handed her to a Marine Repair Agent who, according to the ships agent, will effect some minor repairs to the life-boat before returning the life-boat to her ship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is not known to NSRI what caused the life-boat to come loose from her ship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=fdbcbc65-d1bd-4c33-82eb-8b0e231b924c\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clifford Ireland, NSRI Durban station commander, said; &#8220;At 11h00 on Wednesday 10 August 2011 our NSRI Durban volunteer duty crew were activated following a request for assistance from the ships agent of the container ship STOLT MOUNTAIN reporting one of the ships life-boats come loose and fallen off the ship, which is at anchorage about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,1533,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-3674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-durban-2","8":"tag-lifeboat","9":"tag-nsri","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3676,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674\/revisions\/3676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}