A well-maintained lifebuoy lasts about 10 years. The lifebuoy holder keeps the lifebuoy in place and makes it easily accessible to everyone. We recommend that the lifebuoy be placed at a height of 1.5 m to the top, so that even children and the disabled can reach it. The buoyancy of the lifebuoy is enough for two people.

Buy your own lifebuoy

As a private person you can advantageously buy your own lifebuoy here at Oxcala. You design it yourself with your own text and choose color. Suitable place for a lifebuoy, for example, is at a private jetty, pool, summer cottage or boat. You also buy your lifebuoy here for the hotel, Beach Club, or the golf club.

How to throw a lifebuoy.

Place the throwline container on the ground and set your foot on it. Keep the lifebuoy along the body and throw with both hands in a "slung" movement. With the front hand in a loop, it becomes easier to control. Keep in mind that the lifebuoy is heavy, therefore aim next to the person in the water.

Throw: Hold the lifebuoy along the body and throw with both hands in a "slung" movement. With the front hand in a loop, it becomes easier to control. Pull in the rope when the person in the water got hold of the lifebuoy.

If you feel confident in walking in the water: Swim to the distressed with something that floats (lifebuoy, spare wheel or similar) and secure the distressed on the surface. Towing towards land. When you reach the beach where you bottom, make ten (10) strong breaths on the distressed. Pull up the distressed on land.

Try to stay ashore and make the rescue from there. You can throw a lifebuoy, a rescue line or something similar to the distressed person and pull the person into land. Always talk to the distressed and keep eye contact.

If you see a broken lifebuoy, you should call the person responsible for the lifebuoy.

Life saving is an act that involves the rescue, cardiovascular rescue and first aid. It often refers to water safety, but may also include rescue from wake, flood or other prehospital work.

If there is water in the lungs or cramps in the trachea, the blood does not get enough oxygen, there will be oxygen deficiency in the body. It goes very fast and you become unconscious within a few minutes. After a few more minutes the heart beats slower and may even stop beating.

Oxygen deficiency damages the brain and it is in a hurry. After 10 minutes below the water surface, almost no one survives - therefore people in the vicinity are absolutely crucial to survival. It is not a team of doctors who will save the life of a person who has drowned, it is those who are nearby.

Drowning accidents can happen everywhere where there is water, for example in bathtubs, lakes, water pools, pools or on the open sea.

It should be possible to hear a rattling sound from the lungs and another symptom is that the person who is affected tries to compensate for the bad oxygen supply by breathing faster. Getting a cold soup is therefore completely harmless in the vast majority of cases.

Inflows are required when drowning.

They create an overpressure in the lungs and water is then pressed out. Therefore, you do not have to think about trying to get water out of the unconscious person before starting in blows and CPR is inserted.

Data on the chance of surviving related to the time underwater, that is, the submersion period, however, varies widely.

If you are in the shower cubicle, you can choose to endure the first moment before the body gets used, or wait for the shower until the hot water is back. For those who have gone through the ice or rolled by a boat in winter, the alternatives are fewer. The gasp reflex can make you drown already after a few seconds.

Medical cause of death

No exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide can occur and thus rises the carbon dioxide content in the blood and oxygen deficiency occurs, which then leads to unconsciousness. When the cramp then releases, water rushes into the lungs and death occurs. Despite this, death can also occur without the lungs becoming water filled.

When water lands on a person's vocal cords, a reflex contraction of the respiratory path takes place. This can be likened to a cramp. Then no breathing can be done and the person's carbon dioxide content in the blood rises rapidly. Oxygen deficiency occurs shortly afterwards and this soon leads to unconsciousness.

About the lifebuoy

The one who owns it. Trygg-Hansa donates lifebuoys in Sweden, which are then owned and managed by the municipalities, boat clubs and cottage associations that ordered them to increase security.

It is important to always have something between yourself and the one you try to save. When you end up in need, you get scared and try to grab what is very hard. An emergency person can cling to the rescuer so hard that both are sinking. The best and safest lifesaver is a dry lifeguard.

Juryn har bara en livboj att dela ut under säsongen. För att juryn ska kunna dela ut en livboj så måste hela juryn vara överens. Livbojen måste inte användas men under sjunde fredagsfinalen är sista gången som möjligheten finns att dela ut den. Sen är det för sent.

A lifebuoy, or the Savior's wreath, is a liquid castle used in life saving in water. Lifebuoy should be found on boats, at bathing places and other coastal areas. Lifebuoy is shaped like a horseshoe, ring or wreath and usually have hard filling of cork or foam plastic.

According to figures from Trygg-Hansa, the lifebuoy saves an average of 14 lives each year. Then there is very likely even a dark figure that is not included. Since the first lifebuoy was distributed in the 1950s, about 145,000 people have used a lifebuoy to save someone out of the water.

Try to stay ashore and make the rescue from there. You can throw a lifebuoy, a rescue line or something similar to the distressed person and pull the person into land. Always talk to the distressed and keep eye contact.

With the right knowledge of life saving, many lives can be saved. But it is far from anyone who has learned to life saving right, and too few update and renew their knowledge. This means that in a crisis situation you can easily forget important parts of what you have learned.

A person in need, even a small child, can easily pull you down under the surface if you swim out to save someone. Therefore, you should always have something between you and the one you should help, such as a lifebuoy. It is usually called "the extended arm".