Showing posts with label Avalanche. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Avalanche. Show all posts
Sunday, January 20, 2013
See Avalanche airbag in use! Tube. Duration : 2.05 Mins.


This is the avalanche airbag in use. By deploying in just a few micro-seconds, this device allows the specific gravity of the wearer / user to be less than that of the snowpack around them, in the unlikely event of being trapped in an avalanche. It allows a skiier or winter adventurer to be jetissoned to the top of the snow mass and thus be rescued based on a visual signal or then the AM/FM transmitters that it carries on it. A helicopter rescue is also possible, as the signals can be collected from the air, and the yellow colour of the airbag immediately attracts attention. Chunni Lal Thakur demonstrates the use of the airbag that Roderick Mackenzie has developed for the use of his heli-skiiers on Himacal Helicopter Skiing, in Manali, Himachal Pradesh, India. This is the avalanche airbag in use. By deploying in just a few micro-seconds, this device allows the specific gravity of the wearer / user to be less than that of the snowpack around them, in the unlikely event of being trapped in an avalanche. It allows a skiier or winter adventurer to be jetissoned to the top of the snow mass and thus be rescued based on a visual signal or then the AM/FM transmitters that it carries on it. A helicopter rescue is also possible, as the signals can be collected from the air, and the yellow colour of the airbag immediately attracts attention. Chunni Lal Thakur demonstrates the use of the airbag that Roderick Mackenzie has developed for the use of his heli-skiiers on Himacal ...

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