Rescue buoy – Wikipedia
Lifeguard is the name for various floating rescue equipment. Mostly as an individual rescue center in water rescue, or as a group rescue center for several people. Furthermore as a trouser buoy, as a rescue collar [first] etc.
The first water rescue equipment [2] This kind was inflatable animal skins or intestines next to hollowed -out pumpkins. Further developments consisted of or with cork in different shapes or soldered sheet metal bodies. From 1891, rescue buoys were prescribed by the accident prevention regulations of the Seeberufsgenossenschaft. [3] The first lifeboy that resembles today’s form was registered for a patent in the United States in 1935. [4]
Rescue boje as an individual rescue center (current type) [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
The Lifeguard (Also: Baywatch-Boe, English Torpedo Buoy or Rescue Can) As a single rescue device, the rescue ring or belt rescuer is similar. It is well suited for operations under difficult conditions, for example with strong sea, long swimming routes or strong current.
The rescue buoy consists of a breast shoulder belt that is connected to the actual buoy, a plastic base with the actual buoy. The buoyancy effect gives the savior additional security in the difficult conditions mentioned above. This type of buoy is also used for water rescue with dogs. [5] It can be found as a rescue center for both professional shipping and on sports shipping and of course at emergency services.
Application [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
In the event of a swimmer use, the lifeguard floats to an accident. He pulls the buoy after him. Once he has arrived at the accident, he is enough for him from a safe distance if he is still conscious. The highest caution is advised to avoid clasping by the accident. If the lifeguard has secured the accident, he pulls it back to the bank.
Dragging unconscious persons [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
The lifeguard summarizes the accident, similar to the armpit drag handle.
The buoy swims over the breast of the accident and is held by the savior with both hands. In this way, the accident can safely be transported to the shore.
Drugging people with consciousness [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
The accident can hold onto the buoy and can either be pulled to the shore behind the savior, or is pulled in the sailor’s drag grip. The lifeguard buoy is holding the hand that has been pushed under the upper arms of the accident. So the rescuer can swim with one hand and secure the attitude of the accident with the other. This swimming style also ensures constant control of the vital functions of the accident.
Application as a tool and for self -defense [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
In corresponding situations, the buoy can be used as a shock and impact tool and for self-defense thanks to its high stability. For example, it is conceivable to take the disc of an accident car. If, for example, the lifeguard wants to calm down rioting people and they attack him, the rescue buoy can be used to defend the armed attackers.
Boje as Signalmittel [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
Hand signs or calls can be quickly lost or overlooked on a busy beach. The buoy, which is mostly delivered in bright red, is ideal in such environments in order to signal dangerous situations or all -clear through pronounced movements. It can also be used as an orientation aid for other emergency services when using water to show where the lifeguard swimmer has dipped.
Self -rescue [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
Should the lifeguard get into a situation in which he has to spend a long time in the water, he can hold on to the buoy so as not to have to waste excessive strength.
Advantages [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
- High self -assurance of the rescuer
- easy to handle
- easy care
- quickly ready for use
- Several crashes can hold onto the buoy
Disadvantages [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
- A lot of practice required
- not poached
The emergency buoys as group rescues to Udet [6] Similar to the rescue raft or the rescue bake and may be equipped with automatic radio stations to alert SAR rescue organizations. Small radio boys are mostly called emergency radio baks.
- Hartmut Goethe, Christa Laban: The individual rescues. ISBN 3-7822-0442-5 (on the history of rescue boje, lifeguard ring and life jacket).
- Karl Born: Rescue between the fronts. Sea service of the German Air Force 1939–1945. 3. Edition. Mittler, Hamburg/Berlin/Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-8132-0756-0.
- ↑ Rescue buoy, U-shaped. (PDF; 3,3 MB) In: Rescue equipment of the German Navy. Press and information center Marine, March 2004, S. 7 , archived from Original am July 31, 2009 ; accessed on October 2, 2016 .
- ↑ Maik Brandenburg: Case in distress. (No longer available online.) In: big online. December 2001, archived from Original am 6. June 2015 ; accessed on October 2, 2016 (History of the water rescue equipment). Info: The archive link has been used automatically and not yet checked. Please check original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note.
- ↑ Rescue system at sea. In: Meyer’s big conversation lexicon. 6. Edition. Volume 16, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig/Vienna 1908, p. 832–835 .
- ↑ Patent US2088251 : Lifesaving device. Registered on 12. September 1935 , published on July 27, 1937 , Erfinder: Henry W. Walters.
- ↑ Water rescue. Austrian dog water rescue, archived from Original am December 24, 2008 ; accessed on October 2, 2016 .
- ↑ Rescue buoy. Loftarchiv.de, accessed on October 2, 2016 (Private website, emergency buoy to Udet).
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