Who We Are

Since 1980, Lifesaving Systems has been an innovator and leader in the world of maritime search and rescue 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.

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

We have designed and manufactured the equipment helicopter and maritime rescue teams use to save lives in some of the harshest environments 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, we make the gear rescuers need to do their jobs and to do them as safely as possible.

Every hour of every day something invented and made at Lifesaving Systems is on or over the waters of the world, being used to save a life. We know the importance of what we are making. We know how and where it will be used. We know that it absolutely cannot fail when it’s needed. We make products that are easy to use, easy to maintain, and as tough and strong as the rescuers who rely on them to save lives.

That’s who we are.