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The first step in recovering someone who can’t help themselves.
Could You Get Someone Back On Board?
Many sailors are surprised to discover just how difficult it is to recover an unconscious casualty from the water. Even a fit crew can struggle to lift a person over the guardrails of a yacht without specialist equipment.
A lifejacket can keep someone afloat, but it cannot get them back on board. Once a casualty is exhausted, injured or unconscious, they cannot climb a ladder, grab a line or help with their own recovery. The task becomes one of making contact, securing them to the boat and then getting them out of the water – often in difficult conditions and with limited access from the vessel. The RYA describes recovery of an unconscious casualty as “far more challenging” and highlights the risks to crew trying to make contact.
So ask yourself:
If someone went overboard today, could you actually get them back on board?
Not just find them. Not just keep them afloat. Get them out of the water.
A Simple Recovery System That Works
Attaching a casualty to the boat while the crew prepares a retrieval rig is key. But on a yacht, reaching down over the side to attach a line can be almost impossible. Even on a motorboat with a bathing platform, it can be difficult to grab and keep hold of someone who cannot help themselves.
MOB Lifesaver provides that crucial connection. Attached to the lifting becket (lifting loop) of the lifejacket, it is already with the casualty when the lifejacket inflates. The rescuer can grab it by hand or with a boathook, secure the casualty to the boat and then set up the appropriate retrieval system.
Deploy
When the lifejacket inflates the Lifesaver is available there on top of the bladder and easy for the rescuer to grab with the boathook.
Secure
Hook the Lifesaver to temporarily secure the casualty safely alongside the boat while preparing for recovery.
Recover
Set up your preferred retrieval rig and winch the man back on board.
Do you have any questions about MOB Lifesavers?
Trusted Across The Marine Industry
From sailing charities and training organisations to professional marine operators.
MOB Lifesavers are being used by organisations where getting someone safely back on board isn’t just a possibility — it’s a responsibility. Sailing charities, youth and sail-training organisations, commercial marine operators and RYA training centres are fitting MOB Lifesavers to help their crews respond when someone goes into the water.
Organisations using Lifesavers include the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust, Ocean Youth Trust, Rona Sailing Project, Discovery Sailing Project, Challenge Wales, professional pilots and commercial marine operators. The wider Stress-Free Sailing material also includes independent experience from Yachting Monthly’s Rachael Sprot, who described the Lifesaver as the practical way they found to reliably control and get hold of an unconscious casualty.
Trusted by those who need to be ready.
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What people say about MOB Lifesavers
Rachel Sprout
Yachting Monthly
“ The Lifesaver was the easiest and almost only way to secure the casualty quickly. Simple, reliable and effective for both conscious and unconscious casualties. ”
Heather Thomas
Skipper of Maiden
” The safety company specifying our equipment had fitted MOB Lifesavers to all their lifejackets – a strong endorsement of their confidence in the system. ”
Bill
Review – Force 4 website.
“ Very rapid MOB recovery from the relative safety of amidships. Easy to hook, simple to secure and easily winched onto the deck. It’s the best solution I’ve seen. ”