Buoys – rafts – and aquatic devices – Water rescue or life protecting apparatus
Patent
1995-01-19
1996-01-16
Avila, Stephen
Buoys, rafts, and aquatic devices
Water rescue or life protecting apparatus
B63C 900
Patent
active
054843138
ABSTRACT:
A rescue net for providing a means of capturing a human victim immersed in rushing water such as that found in a rapidly flowing river or flash flood area comprising a net having a rectangular border with four corners and a mesh portion extended across and coupled to the border; four rigid metal oval openable carabiners with each carabiner removably secured to a separate corner of the net; four pieces of rope with each piece of rope having a proximal end fastened to a separate carabiner and a distal end holdable by a user for allowing the net to be placed in an extended configuration; and a plurality of battery-powered water-proof strobe lights removably secured to the net.
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Rachal Don P.
Rachal Shirley J.
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