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SB Rescue Sling™The product that saves lives

For marine, inland-waterway and harbour environments:• effective for fast casualty recovery • used by professionals • easy to operate• only 3 kg, telescopic and effective to more than 4,5 m• easy maintenance• affordable

The product that saves lives

Preparing the SB Rescue Sling™1. Place the slider on to the alu flag, and attach the line to the triangular retainer.

2. Fasten the harness at the bottom on each side of the SB Rescue Sling™.

3. Fasten the harness on the upper clip.

4. When using extension, connect A to B, then connect the part with a stopper to the boat-hook.

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SB Rescue Sling™Casualty Recovery

General informationSB Rescue Sling™ is a simple and effective tool to save casualties out of the water. It is easy to use, can be operated by one person only, and is applicable in most vessels, harbours and waterways. SB Rescue System™ contains:

SB Rescue Sling™, SB Telescopic Davit™ and stainless winch.

This system makes it very easy to recover casualties out of the water.

The system is easy to mount the, and it is space-saving.

How to operate SB Rescue Sling™

1. Place the SB Rescue Sling™ around the casualty in the water.

2. Place the Sling from the feet up or from the head down.

3. Bring the harness under the arms of the casualty and pull the line to realease the harness from the frame.

4. Push the frame to tighten the harness around the casualty and remove the frame.

5. Pull the casualty close to the vessel.

6. The casualty can now be recovered directly into the vessel or pulled out using SB Telescopic Davit™ or a crane (img. 7).

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SB Body Bag™Body recovery

SB Body Bag™The SB Body Bag™ is designed to retrieve casualties floating in the water. The system is most ef-ficient when slow forward movement allows the bag to stream out and not obstruct the mouth. From on board the movement may be obtained by careful use of the vessel’s engines to give headway. From a river bank, or similar, walking or use of the current will have the desired effect.

How to use the SB Rescue Sling™ in combination with the SB Body Bag™1. From the feet up or from the head down - as is most appropriate - guide the SB Body Bag™

so as to fully capture the body.

2. Pull on the line to release the bag from the frame.

3. Push on the frame to tighten the drawcord and close the mouth of the bag. Remove the frame.

4. Recover the body.

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Preparing for body RecoveryAffixing the body recovery bag to the SB Rescue Sling™ is similar to preparing the apparatus with the casualty recovery harness. Users may find it beneficial to be familiar with fixing the casualty harness before attempting to prepare the body bag. For body recovery it is advantage-ous to fit the brace bar by locating the snatch grips at the extreme end of each prong (A).

1. Place the webbing immediately below the Tri-D ring onto the stud found on the “U”-frame. Pull the red webbing slider so that it covers the metal vane located below the stud and ensure the recovery line is attached to the SB Harness.

2. Make sure the recovery strop is not twisted and clip the long black retainers on the strop to the “U” frame on each side below the white collars.

3. Slide the webbing through the black upper clips.

4. When using the 1 metre extension pole connect a to b. Ensure that all locating lugs are fully engaged.

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1. Visually inspect the welds.

2. Visually inspect the general condi-tion of the frame, handle and boat hook, ensuring that they are not twisted, dented or damaged.

3. Visually inspect the rope (poly-ester) and harness (nylon), including stitching, ensuring that they are not damaged, cut, frayed, compacted or hardened, nor been subject to de-terioration due to incorrect storage, contamination or solar degradiation. Note: Information concerning the storage, care and inspection of nylon and polypropylene materials is available in the UK Code of Practices for Merchant Seamen,

UK Marine Guidance Notes as issued from time to time, and other sources.

4. Check the satisfactory operation of the snap hook.

5. Ensure satisfactory operation of the locating lugs in the handle and tele-scopic boat hook, and satisfactory operation of the telescopic extension securing ring.

6. Check that the lower (black) plastic securing grips firmly attach to the frame ends (but do not leave them so attached when the equipment is not in use).

7. In addition to the inspections described above, please note that the casualty recovery strop and recovery lines are load tested up to 500 kg only, and therefore should be checked every 3 year - or more often - if there is a risk that there may have been some deterioration or damage, and that they are replaced at inter-vals not exceeding five years. The SB frame, handles and telescopic extensions are not load bearing and require only the periodic inspections detailed above.

Periodic inspection and testing

Information to users of SB Rescue Sling™CautionBefore use, the long black plastic clips should be attached to the frame below the white collar. Slide the clips until they are touching the white PVC discs fitted to the ends of the frame.

If the black plastic harness clips are permanently mounted on the frame, they may loose some of their grip. This could cause the harness to slip off the frame when the SB Rescue Sling™ is pushed against the water surface.

It is therefore important that the SB Rescue Sling™ is stowed without the black plastic clips being secured to the frame.

Request for informationIn order that we produce and supply life-saving equipment that actually saves lives, it is important that users of our products relay to us any information gleaned during practice or real rescue situations so that we can continuously improve our products.

Sula Bedriftsteneste is certified in accordance with the ISO 9001:2008 quality programme.