Ryan Chen

A child’s life jacket is not a smaller adult jacket. It is engineered around a different problem: a body with a proportionally heavier head, a higher center of gravity, less swimming ability, and — in the case of infants —…

Life jacket,” “life vest,” “PFD,” “buoyancy aid” — the terms are used interchangeably in everyday speech, but they describe equipment with different performance characteristics, certified to different requirements, intended for different water conditions. Choosing on the name rather than the…

A water rescue kit is not a single product. It is a specified set of personal protective equipment and team hardware, matched to the water conditions a team operates in and the role each rescuer performs. Teams that treat the…