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SWIMMING BUDDY

BE SERIOUS ABOUT YOUR SAFETY.

BE SAFE... BE  SEEN...BE RESPONSIBLE...

Text Box: Clip to any standard life vest strap enhances wearer’s visibility to other water craft operators. 
Text Box: The SWIMMING BUDDY is simple. 
It is made universal in size and color. It is cylindrical in shape, neon-yellow or orange in color and has 1 inch ANSI reflective tape at the tip which enhances wearer’s visibility while in the water to other watercraft operators.

Mr. Armando Rositas,
District 7 of Michigan United Conservation Club found your
SWIMMING BUDDY a good Safety device and voted to back your idea 100% on January 13, 2009.
Thank You,

Elden Montross
District 7 Chairman
Michigan United Conservation Clubs

SIMPLE

UNIQUE

EFFECTIVE

 

The SWIMMING BUDDY has been presented before:

 

-Michigan Senate Natural Resources Committee

 

-United States Coast Guard Personnel

 

-Lake Associations

 

-Michigan Conservation Club District #7

 

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These first five totals of accidents, deaths, and injuries out number that of number six alone.

The SWIMMING BUDDY is for Visibility Use Only.

The SWIMMING BUDDY is not a Floatation Device.

90 Percent of drowning victims did not wear a life vest.

DON’T BE A STATISTIC. BE SAFE...BE SEEN...

6 of 12 Primary Contributing Factors

*2008 United States Coast Guard Recreational Boating Statistics

On that fourth of July weekend lives were changed. I was compelled to design the SWIMMING BUDDY.

Life vest for floatation. Swimming Buddy for Visibility.

All are primary reasons to wear the SWIMMING BUDDY.

Add that Critical Layer of Visibility to your Life Vest.

 

The VISIBILITY of those immersed in the water to watercraft operators or their spotters

is sometimes very difficult. The SWIMMING BUDDY helps enhance the VISIBILITY of your children after a fall from their jet-ski, tube, canoe, boat, kayak or swimming along the shoreline. As each new life vest “USCG THINK SAFE BOOKLET” reads, “In rough water, a wearer’s face may often be covered by waves.” 

 

The SWIMMING BUDDY was presented before the MICHIGAN SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE (7/15/09) to bring attention to the need of the life vest accessory invention. The SWIMMING BUDDY is not a floatation device, the SWIMMING BUDDY is solely used as a VISIBILITY enhancer. The SWIMMING BUDDY simply clips to any standard life vest strap working on a stick bobber concept, only weighing 1.6 ounces, 19” in length, 2.5” diameter of RE-CYCLED Polyethylene, a 1” strip of AMERICAN NATIONAL SAFETY INSTITUTE reflective tape at the top and a 1” snap S clip; the SWIMMING BUDDY does not impede the functionality

of a life vest.

 

I slowed my boat to leave less wake, the missed calculation left a seventeen year old  permanently dismembered  and a traumatized father frantically searching for the seven year old who had been thrown into the water at impact. During the rescue had my reverse failed this accident would have been worse. I am on a mission to bring VISIBILITY of our children while in the water. The SWIMMING BUDDY is manufactured by fellow AMERICANS in EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN. USA.

 

 

Armando Rositas

Founder/CEO

enhances VISIBILITY

Available Colors
Spring Pricing Coming Soon!

 

ACCIDENTS

DEATHS

INJURIES

1. Careless/Reckless Operation

492

32

390

2. Operator Inattention

488

28

329

3. No Proper Lookout

430

24

331

4. Operator Inexperience

429

40

315

5. Excessive Speed

282

29

268

6. Alcohol Use

276

124

246