A safety, rescue, and recovery device that compressively secures to a limb of a user when inflated. The device can be easily adjusted to be negatively buoyant, neutrally buoyant, or positively buoyant before inflation depending on whether the application is safety, rescue, or recovery. The device may also be integrated into an article of clothing for certain applications. An elongated handle is attached to the device to provide a sliding attachment point for a rescue rope that automatically reduces torque applied to the limb of the user. Consequently, a rescue force applied to the rescue rope can act at a variety of angles along an arc relative to the device.

A life preserver locator system for assisting in locating and rescuing persons located in body of water. The life preserver locator system includes a water permeable envelope attachable to a life preserving aid and having a deployable water-activated signal assembly. In one embodiment, the deployable water-activated signal assembly includes a water-activated gas inflator mechanism that on exposure to water, such as saltwater, automatically actuates to inflate a balloon. The balloon deploys from the envelope into the air on a cable attached to the life preserver locator system allowing establishment of a line of sight from a person in the water and a rescue vessel to the balloon. In one embodiment, a light emitting device, such as strobe light, on the balloon automatically activates to emit light, to assist the person in the water in locating the life preserving aid. When the person reaches the life preserving aid, the person can activate a switch on the water-activated signal assembly changing the appearance of the emitted light.

A persona! flotation device for a user comprises a bodywear member, as well as a container containing buoyant gas and an actuation assembly, both of which are mounted to the bodywear member. The bodywear member is to be worn to by the user such as on the wrist or the neck. The actuation assembly is in operative communication with the container containing buoyant gas for selectively being actuated so as to provide fluid communication between the container containing buoyant gas and the inflatable member. Actuation of the actuation assembly provides for releasing the buoyant gas into the inflatable member causing the inflatable member to inflate and provide buoyancy to the persona! flotation device.

The embodiments of the present disclosure provide an underwater fitness belt, including one or more fixing floats, a plurality of sets of adjustable floats, and a fixing strap; each set of the plurality of sets of adjustable floats includes two symmetrically shaped adjustable floats; and the plurality of sets of adjustable floats are capable of being connected through the fixing strap and are capable of being unconnected.

The present invention utilizes the resilient force (i.e. the force to deform when pressure is added and to return to the original shape when the pressure is removed) of an elastic member or bias member. A large pressure if added in advance to the elastic member or bias member disposed in a preserver body to set the preserver body in a thin and flat state. In an emergency, the resilient force of the elastic member or bias member causes water or air to be sucked into the preserver body. The volume of the preserver body is expanded by the air sucked in due to the resilient force of the elastic member or bias member or by gas generated by a chemical reaction between the sucked-in water and a foaming agent. The increased volume causes the preserver body to float, thereby enabling a wearer to breathe.

An inflatable carrying device of watercraft by a single human carrier comprising one or more inflatables having a shape to enable it to be secured to one or both shoulders of the carrier, and a shear and tensile strength to support at least in part the watercraft. Various embodiments of the inflatables include an incurvate side about 240-300 degrees to secure to the shoulders, a length extending at least transversely across the seating area of the watercraft, a length about the width of one shoulder of the carrier, and a height to provide forward visibility for the carrier to avoid obstacles. The device makes possible single human transport of watercraft which lack a design structure for solo transport such as a kayak having a cockpit and a sit-on-top kayak.

An infant recreational floatation device is provided. In some embodiments, a floatation device for an infant is provided, the floatation device comprising an inflatable ring having a top surface and a bottom surface, wherein the inflatable ring includes: an air chamber having an upper chamber portion and a lower chamber portion that are divided by a layer; a cut through the air chamber of the inflatable ring that forms a first end of the inflatable ring and a second end of the inflatable ring, wherein the first end and the second end of the inflatable ring are displaced to insert a neck of the infant into an interior space; a plurality of cut-out portions adjacent to the interior space; and a plurality of fasteners placed on the top surface and the bottom surface of the inflatable ring that detachably connect the first end and the second end of the inflatable ring.

A flotation device is provided, which comprises: a hull (1) in the form of a buoyancy chamber (1.1), wherein the front end of the hull (1) is equipped with a means (7) for securing a cord, and a cutout (5) is made at the rear end of the hull (1). The hull (1) can be made composite, consisting of the first part (17) of the hull and the second part (18) of the hull, arranged in series along the longitudinal axis of the hull (1) and connected to each other by connecting elements (19) to form of connection that provides possibility of mutual rotation of the first part (17) of the hull relative to the second part (18) of the hull in a vertical plane. The invention increases the efficiency of saving drowning people in open water and reduce mortality during rescuing.

A slide fastener pan includes a multiplicity of sequentially arranged fastening element locations (SOB), extending from a start position (A) to an end position (B), and a fastening element (35B) at respective ones of the locations (SOB), the slide fastener part being configured for attachment to and detachment from an oppositely positioned associated slide fastener part having a multiplicity of sequentially arranged fastening elements (35A) by the movement of a sliding element (12), the attachment being by abutment of abutment portions of oppositely positioned ones of fastening elements (35A, 35B), wherein the first-mentioned multiplicity of sequentially arranged fastening element locations (30B) include a plurality of adjacent ones of the locations (30B), between the start position (A) to the end position (B), that are modified so as to provide a region (40) between the start position and the end position at which the attached slide fastener parts are relatively easily separated. The slide fastener part carries a flexible strip (60A) that extends over the fastening locations (30B, 30B) and is configured to abut a corresponding flexible strip (60A) of the oppositely positioned associated slide fastener part.

A floatation device having improved safety mechanisms is provided. In some embodiments, a floatation device is provided, comprising an inflatable ring that includes: an outer air chamber having a first valve for inflating the outer air chamber; an inner air chamber having a second valve for inflating the inner air chamber, wherein the outer air chamber and the inner air chamber are not in communication; a cut through the outer air chamber and the inner air chamber of the inflatable ring that forms opposing ends of the inflatable ring; a first plurality of fasteners that detachably connect opposing ends of the outer air chamber; and a second plurality of fasteners that detachably connect opposing ends of the inner air chamber of the inflatable ring.