Message from Sir David Attenborough

Message from Sir David Attenborough: At 99 years young, we need to be listening to this fella…

David’s brother Richard also has a special place in my heart but for another reason completely…

“Capital Radio 604, the trailblazing South African station that broadcast from 1979 to 1996, shared a unique connection with London’s Capital Radio through Richard Attenborough. As revealed in the documentary Music Power: The Story of Capital Radio 604, Richard, the first broadcaster and lifetime president of London’s Capital Radio (originally Capital 194), granted permission for Capital Radio 604 to use their iconic graphics and jingles. These were re-sung and adapted to suit the South African station’s identity, enabling it to craft a vibrant, professional sound that resonated with listeners. This collaboration helped Capital Radio 604 deliver uncensored news and banned music during apartheid, leveraging the established branding of its London counterpart to become a cultural force in South Africa.”

State of the Ocean Report for Today

Starting with, the conditions, as usual…and visiting a handful of locations up and down the coast…

“Yeah Welcome back to the Sardine News we’re gonna start this show with our dear friend Sir David Attenborough the legend 99 years old and still in the game okay but he’s got a quite a serious message here for everybody the movie is called Ocean so you gonna have to go over to National Geographic or wherever you can find it and watch that movie you know that is very important that we need to listen to this guy after all the experience he’s got alright moving on to the conditions another pearl of a day day after day after day not complaining boy so if you can be out there you best be out there luckily the whole weekend looks good a bit of a blow on Sunday night from the west though luckily beautiful beautiful then the whole of next week is really good again things are really falling into place and uh yeah the tides are pretty cool low tide in the morning little bit later and then afternoon about mid afternoon we got a high tide the barometer’s falling yeah 1016 or something like that because of the the cold front that’s coming along and it’s gonna be lekker hot today up to 26 degrees and we’ve got a little light offshore in the morning and then this afternoon is gonna blow a bit of a east because that’s how the west gets its energy well basically you can think of the west is taking a breath that’s the east and then it’s gonna blow that air back up when it comes past here on Sunday night can’t wait um we’ve got a almost a full moon which is really cool for everything that happens especially even and including the sardines they like a full moon and a big swell JBay’s cooking Bruce is sending me clips non stop here they are here’s a couple not many takers freeday Vrydag jas coming around the corner you can watch him on his website brucefire.co za or his channel brucefire Ja surf retorts surf retorts uh the bear is also reporting today it’s Friday look forward to that don’t forget to like and subscribe on those guys channels they gotta get those channels going okay Lekker let’s go and check some other places yeah big thanks to Adam for that footage of Durban again wonderful place okay then we come down here to the Block in Port Shepstone this is the Block I know where there’s lots of okes fishing in ha ha ha ha this is nothing this is like maybe a 1% crowd but you are its lekka to see the okes down here again the construction people at the bridge are not interfering yet not sure what their plan is but there are workers on site okay this is Umhlanga next up there KC thank you for doing the clip for us beautiful hey yes I think anywhere you go today it’s just gonna be peach and absolutely beautiful so go out there if you can and enjoy it enjoy the weekend don’t forget to like and subscribe and I also wanna clarify if you wanna join the HOTLINE you have to join the YouTube channel membership some people are getting confused and asking to just to be put in the HOTLINE ha ha you gotta become a YouTube member alright Ciao ciao”

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