{"id":7173,"date":"2009-04-04T13:08:40","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T20:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=7173"},"modified":"2009-04-04T13:08:45","modified_gmt":"2009-04-04T20:08:45","slug":"self-inflating-surf-jacket-blows-you-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=7173","title":{"rendered":"Self-Inflating Surf Jacket Blows You Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/surfer-420x0jpg.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/surfer-420x0jpg.jpeg','popup','width=420,height=276,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/surfer-420x0-tm.jpg\" height=\"131\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Surfer-420X0.Jpg\" \/><\/a>After a long hold-down at Grajagan Australian industrial design student <strong>Grant Humphreys<\/strong>. 26. decided he needed a safer way to surf large waves. In his final year at <strong>University of New South Wales<\/strong> he designed a &#8220;rescue jacked,&#8221; according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brisbanetimes.com.au\/national\/surfers-depths-of-despair-inspire-a-lifesaving-design-20090404-9sh0.html\" target=\"_blank\">Brisbane Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr Humphreys&#8217;s safety rescue jacket, dubbed the mAIRine, is for a situation where a surfer is held under water for a long period of time. There is a small air canister on the back and a mouthpiece that is designed for self-rescue. In the event of a surfer becoming unconscious, a manual spring-loaded timer triggers an inflation bladder, so they rise to the surface.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The project is a finalist in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesdysonaward.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">James Dyson Award<\/a><\/strong> design competition, however, we still have two questions: does it work? And who is using it? Sadly, this story answers neither of those questions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brisbanetimes.com.au\/national\/surfers-depths-of-despair-inspire-a-lifesaving-design-20090404-9sh0.html\" target=\"_blank\">Brisebane Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a long hold-down at Grajagan Australian industrial design student Grant Humphreys. 26. decided he needed a safer way to surf large waves. In his final year at University of New South Wales he designed a &#8220;rescue jacked,&#8221; according to a story in the Brisbane Times. Mr Humphreys&#8217;s safety rescue jacket, dubbed the mAIRine, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7173"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7174,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7173\/revisions\/7174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}