| AUTOTETHER™ is portable and is
powered by standard AAA batteries that provide more than 100 hours of protection.
Take it from the boat to the beach. If your child, wearing the personal
sensor, strays more than 100 feet or goes in the water the alarm will sound.
AUTOTETHER™ brings boating safety to a new level.
Boating to a new level of safety:
Don’t let a runaway boat ruin your life, falling out of your boat and not
being able to get back in is bad enough, the boat can continue on and crash
into another vessel, causing property damage or loss of life.
The occurrence of runaway vessels is on the rise as more people take
to the water. Last year in Connecticut an operator and his dog were
thrown from their vessel after hitting a large cross wake and the boat continued
down the Connecticut River for 1 ½ miles before hitting a sailboat and killing
a passenger and critically injuring the other. This accident among
others is forcing boating legislators to take action on the boating laws
to protect innocent victims.
Wearing the safety emergency stop lanyard is required by law in 3 states
and is important for the safety of those in the vessel as well as the vessels
that are around it. When surveyed, most operators do not wear the
emergency stop lanyard and admitted to leaving the helm at one time or another
when the vessel was under way. The main reason for not wearing emergency
stop lanyard is that it is inconvenient by restricting movement of the operator
around the helm.
The AUTOTETHER™ Wireless Lanyard System not only eliminates the problem
of inconvenience, it also allows for more than one person or pets to be
connected to the emergency stop switch by wearing a wireless sensor.
Autotether prevents runaway boats by shutting off the motor as soon as the
operator goes into the water or sounding an alarm if any of the other three
sensors go into the water.
AUTOTETHER™ is the least expensive insurance a boat owner can purchase
and offers the best piece of mind.
Attention Fishermen:
Anthony Viggiano, one of the inventors and an avid fisherman said, “Having
been a fisherman most of my life, I love being out on the water, many times
by myself. I can't count the times I have been trawling or just trying to
hold a position in a rapidly moving current with the motor running and moving
just fast enough to stay ahead of the current. When I catch a fish and would
be moving to the back of the boat and thinking what if I fall in how will
I get back in the boat with the motor running?”
You can be a very good swimmer and wear the best life preserver, but
you can not save yourself unless you get back in the boat. To do that,
you have to stop the motor and that is what the Autotether wireless lanyard
does without the restrictions of a tethered lanyard.
For fishermen if you fish alone or with friends, you need an Autotether
Wireless Lanyard System.
AUTOTETHER™ wireless lanyard system is an innovation in boating safety
equipment that every boater should have! Unlike traditional lanyard
kill switches that come standard with boats and require the operator to
be tethered to the boat, the AUTOTETHER™ boating safety device is an unobtrusive
wireless unit that clips right into the emergency stop switch (kill switch).
It operates via a radio transmitter in a personal sensor worn by a person
or pet that sends radio waves to a receiver connected to the boat’s emergency
stop switch. When the sensor is submerged in water, the signal between
the transmitter and the receiver is instantly broken, because radio waves
do not travel through water. AUTOTETHER™ activates the emergency stop switch
which stops the boat’s motor. For added safety, should the operator or a
passenger notice a potential danger, he or she can push the red alert button
AUTOTETHER™ on the sensor to sound an alarm and stop the boat.
AUTOTETHER™ can accommodate a total of four wireless sensors – one for
the boat operator and three for additional passengers, including children
and pets. Any passenger wearing the sensor who falls overboard will
signal the boat to stop with the sound of an alarm.
AUTOTETHER™ is easy to install. It clips right to the boat’s emergency
stop switch (kill switch). The clip is connected via a short, coiled
wire to a receiver that is mounted on the boat’s dashboard using 3M advanced
dual lock strips. No wiring or tools are required. The system
is self-powered via inexpensive AAA batteries, which are supplied with the
kit. They can provide up to 150 hours of service. An indicator
light on the transmitter illuminates when it is time to change the batteries.
(Battery life is dependent upon individual boater system usage.)
OTHER BENEFITS
AUTOTETHER™ has other benefits over existing wireless devices.
Other benefits include:
- AUTOTETHER™ is portable and can be used on any boat or taken to
the beach or pool. You can use it to notify you when your child,
wearing the AUTOTETHER™ sensor, goes into the water or strays too far
from the AUTOTETHER™ receiver.
- More freedom than a hard-wired kill switch which requires the operator
to be chained to a boat’s ignition.
- Less hassle than old-fashioned kill switch cords that can get tangled
or caught. An operator does not need to hook and unhook from the
boat’s ignition.
- Avoids having the engine make an unexpected stop at high speed because
the operator accidentally disconnected the hard-wired cord from the
boat’s ignition is a dangerous condition avoided with AUTOTETHER™.
- Hard-wired kill switches protect only the operator. AUTOTETHER™
protects others onboard, with one receiver serving up to a maximum of
four sensors.
- AUTOTETHER™ is fail safe.
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