GL: Life Sling (was: Jack Lines and Tethers)

[Truelove39 at aol.com]

Hi Kevin -

Agreed that getting back to the MOB is of first importance. My  original
question was prompted by your statement that you sold the Lifesling. As  I'm
sure
you know, Lifesling is generally considered to be a very good, if not  the
best, method of retrieving  a MOB so I wondered if you had  discovered a
better
solution.

John



In a message dated 10/6/2007 10:42:06 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
kfredden at verizon.net writes:

>-------- Original Message ---------
> How do you then get the  MOB onto the boat?


Hi John,

My post was only  addressing the problem of getting back to the MOB and
getting flotation to  them. As you obviously know, once youbre back there
and
made contact,  getting the MOB on board is a whole bnother can of worms.

If you donbt  get back fast and get flotation to the victim to keep them
alive and  afloat, you will never face the recovery on board problem. As
such, my  first priority is to get flotation to the victim b and Ibve
found
the Life  Sling is the slow way to do that, putting the life of the MOB  at
stake.

The subject of recovery on board is worthy of a separate  thread of its own.

Kevin


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