# Rescue sling

**URL:** <https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/rescue-sling/70982>\
**Category:** Marine Safety\
**Created:** [October 21, 2024, 9:09pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/rescue-sling/70982 "2024-10-21T21:09:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![ombugge](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/ombugge/32/11217_2.png) [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 9:09pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/rescue-sling/70982/1 "2024-10-21T21:09:07Z")

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I read an article in the local paper about a “protected workplace” for people with various forms of handcaps in the local municipality of Sula, near Ålesund.  
Started 31 years ago as a laundry for local heath and social institution, with only a dozen employees, it has venture in several different products (incl. maritime related) and now with 70 employees. It has become both successful and even profitable.

This part caught my eyes:

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> In addition, Sula Vekst has become a significant subcontractor to the maritime industry, both locally, nationally and internationally.
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> - Among other things, we have had great success with a self-produced boat hook, which is also used to rescue people from the sea. We have just sold 1,000 to the Australian Navy, and it is used by the Navy in Taiwan, the police in London and New York and several other places. It’s quite incredible that little us sends around the world, says Vebenstad.
> - Without boasting too much, we have had solid growth in what we export in recent years. We have been conscious of creating safe workstations with spaces that employees know how to operate. It is quite incredible what we have achieved over many years, and there are fixed routines with a lot of joy, says Hjelle.

Source: [https://www.smp.no/naeringsliv/i/63laq3/fra-sula-til-den-australske-marine](https://www.smp.no/naeringsliv/i/63laq3/fra-sula-til-den-australske-marine)

That raised my curiousity and I found this site:

> **[SB Rescue Sling Man Overboard System FAQs](https://icbrindle.com/news/sb-rescue-sling-FAQs-2024)**
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> Learn more about its features & benefits, inspection routines and more with recently answered FAQs about the Sb Rescue Sling Man Overboard System. Worldwide shipping.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/gcaptain_maritime_forum/original/3X/0/1/016156f4db94ef241b156844485b03a5febb1efe.jpeg)  
Apparently they produce some parts of this product, incl. the “boat hook”:

> **[MOB Cradle Recovery Pole - 1.7m - 4.7m - Telescopic Body Hook and Boat Hook...](https://icbrindle.com/telescopic-cradle-recovery-pole-mob.html)**
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PS\> Has anybody here come across this product?

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**Author:** ![244](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/a3d4f5/32.png) [@244](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/244)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2024, 11:38am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/rescue-sling/70982/2 "2024-10-22T11:38:11Z")

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Not that particular one but we used a Seasafe product called a Matesaver on the pilot boats. Similar idea.

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**Author:** ![ombugge](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/ombugge/32/11217_2.png) [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2024, 12:01pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/rescue-sling/70982/3 "2024-10-22T12:01:48Z")

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> [@244](#):
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> Matesaver

This is a variant from the same manufacturer:

> **[SB Rescue Sling Matesaver - MCA & SOLAS Accepted Man Overboard Recovery...](https://icbrindle.com/sb-rescue-sling.html)**
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Also using components made by Sula Vekst AS

PS\> THis is commonly found on fishfarms and their service vessels, as well as other small vessels with low freboard.