Sea rescue kit for deployment from a helicopter

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1986-06-20

1987-09-01

Basinger, Sherman D.

Buoys, rafts, and aquatic devices

Rafts

Inflatable

441 42, 441 83, B63C 904

Patent

active

046906509

ABSTRACT:
A sea rescue kit deployable from a helicopter includes a first self-inflating life raft, a second self-inflating life raft, a line connecting the first and second life rafts, and a device associated with the line to retard the line in the water relative to the life rafts to cause the life rafts and line to assume a substantially horseshoe-shaped configuration around a predetermined position in the sea after deployment from a helicopter upwind of the predetermined position.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2095974 (1937-10-01), Finch
patent: 3036315 (1962-05-01), Karnow
patent: 3612448 (1971-10-01), Frieder
patent: 4639229 (1987-01-01), Wright et al.

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