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A.Appleyard wrote:- (Subject: a way to airlift a diver)

> In lifting a scuba diver in and out of awkward places and in rescuing, the
> problem arises of how to sling a diver from a rope. Is there way of e.g.
> fastening two big carabiners to a scuba harness?, so if he needs rescuing
> the strop can be passed thru the carabiners so he needn't jettison his kit?

Greg.Leafe@sc*.wm*.sa*.co* (Greg Leafe) replied to me:-

> With a length of webbing (for rescue or climbing) a Hansens harness can
> easily and quickly be fashioned. then a diver can be connected to the lift
> line with a carabiner. The advantage of the Hansen harness is that it is
> full body, simple, quick and it is impossable to fall out of even if the
> person is unconcious. Using most harnesses that are on dive gear could be
> very dangerous, I only know of one BCD on the market that is designed to
> handle anything like a vertical lift.

If the diver can make by himself strong enough stitching / etc to safely hold
the harness together. But not all people are that able to make that sort of
thing themselves. Is there anywhere commercially available a man-lifting
harness that (1) can be routinely worn under scuba gear, and (2) can be
fastened easily in emergency to any sort of lifting gear that a rescue
helicopter / etc may be equipped with?

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