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survival suits
HANSEN PROTECTION
Tykkemyr 27, 1597 Norway
Tel: +47 69 00 13 00
Fax: +47 69 00 13 01
E-mail: hpro@hansenprotection.no
Website: www.hansenprotection.no
Hansen Protection develops, designs and manufactures both standard and tailor-made high-tech textile
products for various sectors. The company has more than 100 years of experience in manufacturing
protective clothing and life jackets for seafarers.
Its teams have been designing, developing and different types of suits in close collaboration System is classifi ed as a “rebreather”. It is connected to
making rescue and survival suits for the North with specifi c user groups to ensure optimal an integrated infl atable lung and one breathes through
Sea Oil Industry since 1976. In addition, Hansen design and performance. a mouthpiece and “reuses” one’s own air. Hansen
Protection’s activities include canopies for leisure Protection set a new standard for Emergency Breathing
boats, as well as products for industrial and Triple approved Systems when it launched SeaAir EBS. Suitable for
agricultural applications and the health sector. Hansen Protection’s high-tech SeaWind suit is use in extreme cold, being able to start breathing whilst
The company is also a major supplier to certifi ed by SOLAS, ISO and EASA. As such it under water, a unique nose clip and other features make
the Royal Norwegian Navy. is approved for most of the most demanding this one of the best automatic solutions on the market.
work situations imaginable. No other survival suit
Hansen Protection is the market leader and can match its suitability for such a wide range of Personal EPIRB (Emergency
manufacturer of immersion suits. All the applications. Position Indicating Radio Beacon)
company’s suits are tested and approved Hansen Protection’s HPL EPIRB is specifi cally
according to the most stringent national and Emergency Breathing Systems designed for helicopter transport passengers
international standards. It places great emphasis Hansen Protection has two Emergency Breathing wearing the company’s emergency immersion
on innovation and development and pushes Systems. One manual and one automatic. Both suits. The device is integrated in the suits to
the boundaries at the leading edge of design, systems can be supplied with the company’s facilitate quick and easy localization.
ergonomics, materials and suitability for purpose. range of SeaAir survival suits. Hansen The emergency distress location signal is activated
Hansen Protection develops and refi nes its Protection’s manual Emergency Breathing automatically when the wearer ends up in the sea.
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