We want to Help Save Lives
World wide drowning,
The third largest killer in the world of accidental deaths.
— Mass rescue situations — near coastlines — out on open ocean — in floods — breaking ice —
— cooperating ships of opportunity — rescue organizations — helicopters — fast rescue boats —
— emergency preparedness — to take a person out of the water — The rescue tool - LIFBOAT —
The vision for Flower of Water
This project is aimed to help people in the water.
An emergency operation is defined as a mass rescue situation when there is not enough resources to help the amount of people in danger.
With the intention to help rescue organizations decrease the capability gap, this project was started. The process have given birth to a product development of a mass rescue tool scaleable to the size of situation.
The world have been shown greater disasters than ever, where not enough resources to save lives have been existing. There is an urgent need of innovation and product development to help save lives in the water.
This is the reason for the Flower of Water to blossom.
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Mass Rescue Scenarios
Blue water rescue — Coastline — Floods
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— Helicopter felt it was safe, could barely flip it. Rescue Swimmer could roll a person on to the raft, and launch and land from it.
— Experienced and inexperienced easily entered.
— This Rescue boat did 34 knots without raft, and 34 knots with raft.
— Can easily be moved with a Rescue Runner, even run up on to the raft.
— Works as an extension to rescue boats, attached parallel it can accurately be aimed to the rocks and help people. Durable material.
— Tested to 2.5 meters hight, as a slide. Also makes it possible to enter and exit and do transfers in-between different size boats or from boat to land.
Lifboat in waves, to show how it flows with the water in breaking waves.
AND to show that a little dinghy with 5 horse power engine can pull the Lifboat out, and therefore increase the rescue capacity in challenging scenarios where only small vessels are available.
It is also cost effective to use smaller boats, and with Lifboat still have capacity to help many people.
To scale up the rescue capacity and help decrease the capability gap.
The next product in the series, a mass rescue platform, the Lifboat is the foundation, and fits together as a natural pattern.
Serial connectable to scale to the size of the rescue situation.
In the factory, located in Lofoten/Vesterålen in the North of Norway.
— Lifboat is designed with several air-chambers, which can be inflated again and again.
— Packable to the size to fit a eu-pallet and two persons can cary it onboard a vessel.
— Designed to be easily mass produced and re cycled.
T e s t i m o n i a l s
Cathrine - Field coordinator in Aegian and Mediterranean Sea.
“ .. I’m very excited that finally somebody has come up not only with the idea, but is actually doing something like that, and it’s about time to continue working on solutions to help save lives.”
Ruben - experience with saving lives with rescue tents.
“ .. There is tools that are designed for the case when a big passenger ship is sinking, then you have the one way life raft, but we need a tool that is reusable again and again. ..We tried to find something, we found some white water rafts we used to tow. .. It would be great to get some tool like this as soon as possible because the tragedy is going on every day. “
Hellenic Rescue Team
“ Mr Hallin presented his project “Flower Of Water”, which we found very promising and extremely useful for organizations which provide Search and Rescue services at sea. The idea that is being developed by Mr Hallin can support SAR teams in Mass Rescue Operations.. We were very glad to meet with Mr Hallin and get to know about this interesting project, that is close to our needs and we expect the test of the prototype with great optimism.
Rune - Captain at RS Sundt Flyer
“ We could easily go with the raft to the people in the water, and the people in the water could easily, very easily, climb ombord. I am actually very positively surprised that it worked so good as it did, that it was so easy to maneuver it with the rescue boat. ..fantastic tool to use while handling mass rescue scenarios in the ocean.”
Testing in waves.
Unstad, Lofoten, North of Norway
Pontus Hallin
Pontus is the creator behind the Lifboat. He has been studying and working with textiles and as a sailor and surfer he has used his knowledge and experience to design and sew together this mass rescue tool.
Matthew Fader
Matthew have many first hand experiences with mass rescue scenarios, now working for the Swedish Sea Rescue Society, and have understood and supported the development for innovation of new mass rescue tools to help close the capability gap.
Flower of Water
2022
Received reviews from rescue society about the product and further development wishes.
Designing smaller versions to handle with smaller vessels.
Invited to do a demonstration of LIFBOAT on the Mass Rescue Conference in June in Gothenburg.
Path to here
2022 - Attended IMRF (International Maritime Rescue Federation) Mass Rescue Conference in Gothenburg.
Finalist and Runner Up for The IMRF Award for Innovation & Technology in Maritime SAR.
Starting with presentations of Lifboat for Rescue Organizations.
2021 - Full scale prototype 1.0 and 1.1 was built and tested at the factory, “Surprisingly good results for first prototype.”
Design upgrades for prototype 2.0 and 2.1 was made and then got built.
We are now testing and documenting the prototypes in the ocean, in various weather conditions.
2020 - We founded the Norwegian limited company, Flower of Water AS
Innovation Norway agreed to finance the plan of prototype building and creating marketing material.
A rescue society in Norway showed interest in the project and will test the prototypes with us in the future.
2019 - Arctic Accelerator - Earned a spot on the incubator program for innovative business ideas.
United Nation invitation - discussing future possibilities of supplying aid products.
Signed co-development contract with sea rescue organization.
2018 - Portugal - invited to ‘Business to Sea’ Conference
Visited Hellenic Rescue Team
2017 - Initiated the project Flower of Water
Innovation Norway supported the start of the project and the market analysis.
Attended the Mass Rescue Conference in Gothenburg.
Visited and Interviewed NGO crews and ships in Malta, active in the mass rescues of the refugees.
Partners
Norwegian factory and producer, NorLense. Preparation partner for long-term and mass production.
Pilot-customer in Sweden. A rescue association who will help with testing and product development.
Arctic Accelerator, incubator platform and provider of knowledge to network and investors.
We are open for partners and/or pilot costumers, and would love to talk with you about involvement and investment.
Pleace contact us
This portrait and documentation was captured by Henrik Lande right in the very first moments of the creating of Flower of Water - mass rescue platform.
Since then, the design has taken shape and been fine tuned to become: Lifboat - a mass rescue tool.
To help save lives in the oceans.
As a creative soul talking to a friend, this video follows the founder of Flower of Water, Pontus Hallin, thru half a year where he live in the north of Norway.
To Investors; see this as a presentation to your future partner, please take contact if you are interested to join.
Send an e-mail to pontus.hallin@gmail.com to get the password to see the movie.
Take your time, to see this you will need to relax for the duration of 20 minutes anyway.
