The SOS Dan Buoy has been awarded the Excellence Award for the Welfare, Health and Safety category in the Sydney Division of Engineering Excellence Awards.
Judges said the unique design of the SOS Dan Buoy “provides the potential to save many lives worldwide by providing a more effective way of ensuring people falling overboard in waterways and at sea have enhanced chances of being found and rescued and staying afloat waiting for rescue, compared with current systems.”
Designed and developed by SOS Marine, the inflatable SOS Dan buoy is not a lifejacket but a compact flotation unit that can be thrown into the water as a rescue device but has been tested to international lifejacket standard, ISO 12402.
The SOS Dan Buoy can be used in fresh or salt water and takes up less room in a fishing tinny than a tackle box.
This award comes after the SOS Dan Buoy won three awards over the past weeks, the 2011 Australian Marine Export Award for Most Innovative Marine Industry Exported Product, the 2011 Australian Business award Product Excellence and Best New Product.