Method for rescuing a person from the water and a device for applying the method

摘要

The invention relates to a method for rescuing a person and a device for applying the method. In a method implemented in accordance with the invention, a bar-like rescue device (1) is conveyed to the vicinity of the rescuee (2), and using the rescue device, a packed life raft (3) is conveyed underneath the rescuee and is filled with a buoyant substance while it is underneath the person, whereupon the life raft rises, lifting the rescuee in the life raft to the surface of the water. A device formed in accordance with the invention comprises a bar-like rescue device (1) and a packed life raft (3) which fills up with a buoyant substance, said life raft being designed to be conveyed under the rescuee (2) with the help of the bar-like rescue device.