Zodiac International

Guillaume Simon-Bouhet

Marc Lavorata

Pascal Michaud

Cédric Dronne

A sea survival device () comprising a container () with several shells () enclosing respective pneumatic liferafts () in the deflated and folded-up state, and inflation means; one half-shell () enclosing a liferaft () is closed by a closure partition (); the automatically triggered inflation means are operationally associated with at least the first liferaft () in a manner such that said first liferaft () is inflated first when the survival device () is deployed operationally; and the liferaft () is operationally associated with inflation trigger means suitable for trigging inflation thereof only once the first liferaft () is inflated.

Sea survival device including several pneumatic liferafts

The invention relates to methods and devices for launching into the water, from a height H greater than a predetermined height h, a life-saving object designed to be able to be launched into the water in free fall from this maximum height h. One end of a halyard is fixedly hooked to the life-saving object or to the launch site; the halyard functionally cooperates respectively with the launch site or the life-saving object so that the life-saving object falling by gravity is braked on and/or by the halyard over at least one part (H-h) of its drop height. By controlling the braking effect, the life-saving object, falling from the height H in a braked manner over at least one part (H-h) of this height hits the surface of the water () with a kinetic energy not exceeding that which it would have at the end of a non-braked free fall from at most the height h.

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Chevanceaux, France

Guillaume Simon-Bouhet