Buoys – rafts – and aquatic devices – Water rescue or life protecting apparatus
Patent
1997-12-06
1999-03-30
Avila, Stephen
Buoys, rafts, and aquatic devices
Water rescue or life protecting apparatus
441 82, 114345, B63C 900
Patent
active
058881115
ABSTRACT:
An inflatable ice mud water rescue craft has an inflatable closed-loop tube that encircles a floor member and two rescue openings, one inboard at the bow and one inboard at the stern of the craft. Preferably the floor member is inflatable. The tube and floor member form the boundaries for the two rescue openings. The tube turns upward fore and aft of the floor member at an angle in the range of 30 to 65 degrees relative to the plane of the floor member and encircles the rescue openings. The tube and rescue openings at the bow and stern arch more than half as high as the overall beam of the craft above the surface of the rescue scene. Drowning victims or imperiled persons may be brought into the craft through the rescue openings.
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Jim Gorant, Jet Ski Saviors, Popular Mechanics, Dec. 1997, pp. 54-57, U.S.A .
Avila Stephen
Clark Charles R.
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