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MOB boat rescue-nets
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Markus Lifenet products are made for use in   extreme situations at sea when every second counts.

See rescue with Markusnet.

It adds value to other lifesaving means on board!

Questions & Answers

Expert advice on the man overboard subject.


Please feel free to look up the questions and answers in this section. In case you wish to use it in other publication or teaching, please let us know and mention your source.

If you have a question you do not find answer to here below, please do not hesitate to tick on the "Feedback" hyperlink and send us your question.


Q&A categories to select from:

General man-overboard (MOB) matters

Markusnet (Markus Lifenet man-overboard safety and rescue technique)

Rescue-line / Safety-line

Man-overboard (MOB) emergency safety-ladder

Man-overboard (MOB) Scramble-net / Mob boat Rescue-net

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Questions - General man-overboard (MOB) category:

  1. How do you define the phrase "man overboard safety"?
  2. Why should every employed seafarer be educated and trained to be a professional man overboard rescuer?
  3. Are there at present any realistic courses available specially on the man overboard safety and rescue subject?
  4. How would you describe professional man overboard rescuer?
  5. What does the word "backup" and the phrase "second security " mean?
  6. Why do I need backup when I have perfectly well operating and safe gangway, pilot ladder and well operating and ready to use MOB boat / transport boat and well trained crew on it?
  7. Where on my boat is the safest spot to lift a man overboard casualty on board in difficult weather and sea conditions?
  8. What are the two man overboard situations you would least like to face?

Questions - Markusnet category (Markus Lifenet man-overboard safety and rescue technique):

  1. Why do I fall on my back sometimes when I am entering the Markusnet in the water, to be taken up in standing position?
  2. Why is it important to allow the man overboard casualty to secure himself or to be secured in the Markusnet in distance from the boat?
  3. Why is the Markusnet designed to day only to lift one person at a time?

Questions - MOB Rescue-line / Safety-line category:

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Questions - MOB safety-ladder category:

  1. How do you define a man overboard emergency safety ladder?

Questions - MOB Scramble-net / Mob boat Rescue-net category:

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The Markusnet is designed to catch the mind of the MOB to secure himself in the net structure and by that decrease the need for in-water rescue and enable rescuer to bring the MOB to safety.
It is also designed to enable safe and effective rescue of helpless MOB casualty so called "in-water" rescue.
and transfer of people from liferaft and small boats to larger vessel in extreme weather and sea conditions.

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