Africa-Press – South-Africa. Cameras installed and operated by the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) helped spot and save a 10-year-old boy who could have drowned at Strand Beach in Cape Town.
NSRI drowning prevention manager Andrew Ingram said the boy, named Matthew, was captured on cameras earlier this year.
Lezhae Snyders, the NSRI’s emergency operations camera operator, spotted the young boy and alerted sea rescuers.
“I was doing my regular monitoring, I saw that someone was in trouble, and zoomed in to confirm. I quickly alerted the lifeguards who had not started their day shift,” said Snyders.
Matthew recently had his first survival swimming lesson.
The cameras are installed at the Western Cape’s Strand Beach, Blouberg Beach, Herolds Bay and Buffels Bay, which all have dangerous rip currents.
Ingram said the NSRI would install more cameras in the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal by the end of the year. He said the organisation needed more volunteers to operate them.
He said:
“In Herolds Bay, we have a pool of volunteers who work closely with the first responders in that area,” said Ingram.
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