FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Safety Turtle
adopted by YMCA
Ottawa, ON – May 1,
2008 –
Terrapin Communications, Inc., maker of Safety Turtle, a personal
wireless immersion alarm designed to protect young children,
seniors, disabled persons and pets from drowning, today announced
that its product has been adopted by YMCA and other aquatic
facilities to automatically alert the front desk of a water rescue
by one of its lifeguards. Safety Turtle also
affords a layer of protection for rehabilitation patients who
exercise in water. They wear a Turtle sun visor or a Turtle
headphone for musical accompaniment.
A Turtle instantly
detects immersion in water, then transmits a signal that sets off a
loud alarm at one or more Base Stations.
Safety Turtle is
the only product on the market satisfying insurance underwriter
recommendations that a portable aquatic-emergency summoning device
should be used instead of a hard-wired emergency button or telephone
in a public pool area. A Turtle attached to each lifeguard rescue
buoy, which always goes into the water during a rescue, allows a
single lifeguard to respond nearly immediately to an aquatic
emergency, rather than having to travel from where s/he was standing
to the emergency call button and then to the distressed swimmer.
The Safety
Turtle personal immersion type pool alarm and wireless gate alarm
were presented and demonstrated by a CPSC water safety spokesperson
on a CNN pool safety feature that aired Saturday July 14, 2007. The
segment is on our web site
www.safetyturtle.com, along with Oprah and other media articles
and airings featuring Safety Turtle.
For media
inquiries, please contact:
Grant Landis
1-909-489-9048
grant@amicuspr.com
