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Handheld wired or wireless devices that control the autopilot and include a crew-overboard function. You can read the User′s Guides on line.
[NKE, France]
Frisbee-like man-overboard throwing device, called the Personal Retriever, with 100 feet of floating line. Will support 12 pounds. Can be deployed and re-deployed quickly.
[Life-Safer, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA]
Water-activated transmitter notifies the vessel if someone falls overboard, and locates the person in the water using a separate electronic direction finder. For singlehanders, can shut down the engine or autopilot.
[Emerald Marine Products Corporation, Seattle, WA, USA]
A device worn by the man overboard sends an ultrasonic signal under water back to the boat. It activates an alarm and the individual′s actual position in the water, relative to the bow of the boat is shown on a display.
[Deep Blue Marine AG, Hallwil, Switzerland]
Pull on the release lanyard near the helmsman and the man overboard pole, horseshoe buoy, strobe light, floating line, whistle, dye marker, and sea drogue are dropped over the side to the person in the water.
[Forespar Products Corporation, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA, USA]
Pull on the release lanyard near the helmsman and the man overboard pole, horseshoe buoy, strobe light, floating line, whistle, dye marker, and sea drogue are dropped over the side to the crew overboard.
[Forespar Products Corporation, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA, USA]
Pocket-sized Personal Locator Beacon transmits emergency information on 406 MHz via COSPAS-SARSAT satellite system with a registered unique, digitally coded distress signal. After several passes the satellite can pinpoint the user′s location within 2.5 miles. Or you can interface a GPS and send your exact position. ACR has many other emergency lighting and electronic products.
[ACR Electronics, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA]
Your boat′s name on a ring buoy. Buy either the appliqué for your own ring or the already-lettered 24-inch man-overboard buoy.
[Yachtsee, Huntington Beach, CA, USA]
An automatic Crew-Overboard Marker Light gives out a 360-degree strobe visible for 3 miles. Automatically rights itself and activates in water. Operates for 36 hours minimum. ACR has many other emergency lighting and electronic products.
[ACR Electronics, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA]
Put this plastic case on your stern rail, pull the handle when someone falls overboard, and a one-person liferaft (MOM-9) or horseshoe buoy (MOM-8) with ballast, drogues, and a flag and light pole will fall into the water. The raft and buoy have built in slings for lifting an injured person aboard.
[Switlik Parachute Company, Trenton, NJ, USA]
The second most dangerous item on a boat is the boom (the first is the liquor locker).
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