Posted on 1/21/2016
Having a place of safety and allowing time for survivors to recover before being rescued at sea is behind the newly designed Seapod inflatable survival platform. The device, which will be making its Seawork International debut this year, combines the latest technology, with proven research to solve the age old problems of surviving critical hours before rescue comes; problems of quick deployment, hypothermia, visibility of survivors and staying safely out of the water to maximise survival time.
UK Company, Salvare Worldwide, has developed the Seapod, a lightweight, easily deployed, fully interlocking inflatable life saving platform based on the Carley Liferaft concept. The Carley Liferaft was used throughout World War II as a survival platform that saved thousands of lives because it got the sailors out of the water delaying the onset of hypothermia. But unlike...