New NSRI vessel is on a 1 900km voyage from Cape Town to KZN

The National Sea Rescue Institute’s fifth offshore rescue craft is currently en route from Cape Town, where the vessels are built, to Richards Bay, Station 19 in KwaZulu-Natal, on the longest sea journey in the organisation’s history.

‘Rescue 19 will be able to cover the northern coastline of KZN up to the Mozambique border. This is one of many reasons why this latest ORC went to Richards Bay,’ he said. The ORC is travelling by sea for strategic reasons because it is much less expensive than road freight.‘Preparing for a trip of this nature requires a lot of planning. One needs to do a full passage plan as well as consider logistics, weather and sea conditions. A passage plan is a process where you consider all the hazards and plot a safe passage with all the different bearings, speeds and fuel consumptions for each leg.

Following its first stop in Mossel Bay, the ORC will make stops in Gqeberha, East London and Durban before reaching its final destination in Richards Bay. Two of these legs are quite long, including the 14-hour journey from Cape Town to Mossel Bay and the 12-hour journey from East London to Durban.If something goes wrong, the crew has planned a safety net around the coastline.

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