For over 37 years, Lifesaving Systems has been an innovator and leader in the world of maritime rescue and survival equipment. Founder Sam Maness invented the first emergency escape breathing device for helicopter crews, the first flotation kit for rescue litters, the first collapsible litters, and the only collapsible steel rescue basket.

Their auto-locking D-Lok rescue hook has been installed on thousands of helicopters, and their inflatable life vests are being worn by tens of thousands of military boat crews and aviators around the world.

Since 1980 they have designed and manufactured the equipment helicopter and maritime rescue teams use to save lives in some of the harshest conditions imaginable. From rescue hooks to personnel harnesses, titanium ladders to rescue litters, from the strobe lights that the lost use to signal for help to the rescue strops that pull them to safety, they make the gear rescuers need to do their jobs and to do them as safely as possible.

Every hour of every day their equipment is out there somewhere on or over the oceans. They know the importance of what they are making. They know how and where it will be used. They know that it absolutely cannot fail when it’s needed. They make it easy to use, easy to maintain, and as tough and strong as the rescuers who take it with them to save lives.