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I live in Alaska. In Alaska, the waters are cold and unforgiving, the weather is frequently stormy, the waves high and the coastline far away. Once a person is dumped into the water, survival time is severely limited.
Every year, multiple times a year, people are lost in these waters, often the bodies are not found.
Life jackets don't help a whole lot. They may help locate a body but the body is most likely deceased.
It happened again this weekend.
A group of us were lamenting this this morning and I got to thinking. What if a life jacket had a cord pull apparatus that would sling a mat under the person, lifting him/her out of the water to the surface, perhaps with a flap that could be laid over the body, which would help conserve body heat.