Rescue Stick - 2007 Innovation Awards Winner: Security

Incredibly easy to use, the Rescue Stick provides rapid flotation assistance to a person at risk of drowning. Simply remove the baton-shaped Rescue Stick from its waterproof bag and throw near the person. Once contact is made with the water it inflates in seconds to a large horseshoe shape keeping them afloat and their head above water until help arrives.
The Rescue Stick is an invaluable tool to provide rapid flotation for emergency response and rescue professionals arriving first on the scene. During a water rescue it can be thrown to the victim to keep them afloat. The device can be thrown accurately 100 feet or further; inflates in seconds when immersed in water providing rapid emergency floatation; offers 35 lb. of buoyancy- twice the flotation of a typical life jacket; and is to repack and reuse -- insert a new bobbin and screw in the replacement handle containing the CO2 cylinder. The Rescue Stick can be stored in a waterproof bag, is compact, and weighs about 1 pound.