Tag Archives: life jackets

2024 Life Jacket Loaner program grant application opens

The Sea Tow Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting boating safety, announced the opening of its Life Jacket Loaner Program Grant Application for the 2024 season.  Administered through the U.S. Coast Guard’s Sport Fish Restoration and Boating Trust Fund, this grant program enables the Sea Tow Foundation to collaborate with communities nationwide, extending the reach of the Life Jacket ...

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Newell donates life jackets to Sea Tow Foundation

The Sea Tow Foundation, a nonprofit focused on boating safety, recently called on the boating industry to help support their Life Jacket Loaner Program by donating life jackets. Newell Brands answered the call by donating more than 10,000 Stearns and Coleman branded life jackets and floating cushions. The Sea Tow Foundation’s Life Jacket Loaner Program is the largest of its ...

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Mustang Survival acquires Stearns

Mustang Survival announced the acquisition of the Government & Commercial Marine business of Stearns. The deal deepens Mustang Survival’s product offering for those that live beyond land to protect freedoms, and those that work on the water to put food on the table for their loved ones. The products will be amalgamated into the Mustang Survival Branded assortments of life ...

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Sea Tow Foundation launches new life jacket loaner stations

The Sea Tow Foundation – a national nonprofit dedicated to the education and awareness of safe boating practices – announced today that it will be working with 154 organizations and agencies to establish new Life Jacket LoanerStations and restock existing stations for the 2021 summer boating season, as part of the Foundation’s ongoing efforts to keep boaters safe. With more ...

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Coast Guard to approve Level 100 Inherently Buoyant Lifejackets

The Coast Guard has issued a policy letter on obtaining Coast Guard approval on Level 100 lifejackets.  This policy builds upon previous efforts by the Coast Guard in cooperation with Transport Canada (TC) and members of the Personal Floatation Device (PFD) community to harmonize North American PFD standards. Policy Letter 02-21, Adoption of ANSI/CAN/UL 12402-4 states the U.S. Coast Guard ...

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Sea Tow Foundation accepting applications for life jacket loaner stations

Sea Tow Life Jacket Loaner Station

The Sea Tow Foundation – a nationwide nonprofit organization dedicated to spreading awareness of safe boating practices – has announced that those passionate about boating and saving lives through life jacket use, can apply to host a loaner station, or restock one in their community.  As part of a grant administered through the U.S. Coast Guard’s Sport Fish Restoration & ...

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Life jacket use hits record highs at NMMA boat shows

More than 34,000 attendees at the NMMA-hosted 2019 Tampa and Norwalk Boat Shows left with a better understanding of the importance of life jacket use, thanks to loaner stations set up by the Sea Tow Foundation. Through partnerships with NMMA and Onyx, the Sea Tow Foundation set up two stations at each of the shows to ensure that life jackets ...

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