Who We Are

From the Mexican Navy in the North to Servicio de Aviación of Argentina and the Chilean Navy to the South, Lifesaving Systems equipment is used throughout Latin America in the business of search and rescue.

For over 40 years, LSC has provided search and rescue equipment used around the world to save lives. Our equipment is used to save lives in Costa Rica and Colombia, Panama and Peru, anywhere severely tough rescue and survival equipment is needed. LSC is working with our Latin American distributors to make owning and maintaining our products easier for all of our partners in rescue around the world. We have done this for forty years and will continue for forty more. To find out more, contact a distributor in your country today or contact LSC directly at products@lifesavingsystems.com.

For 40 years Lifesaving Systems has been an innovator and leader in the world of maritime rescue and survival equipment. Founder Sam Maness invented the first emergency escape breathing device for helicopter crews, the first flotation kit for rescue litters, the first collapsible litters, and the only collapsible steel rescue basket.

Our auto-locking D-Lok rescue hook has been installed on thousands of helicopters, and our inflatable life vests are being worn by tens of thousands of military boat crews and aviators around the world.

Since 1980 we have designed and manufactured the equipment helicopter and maritime rescue teams use to save lives in some of the harshest environments imaginable. From rescue hooks to personnel harnesses, titanium ladders to rescue litters, from the strobe lights that the lost use to signal for help to the rescue strops that pull them to safety, we make the gear rescuers need to do their jobs and to do them as safely as possible.

Every hour of every day something invented and made at LSC is on or over the waters of the world, being used to save a life. We know the importance of what we are making. We know how and where it will be used. We know that it absolutely cannot fail when it’s needed. We make things that are easy to use, easy to maintain, and as tough and strong as the rescuers who take it with them to save lives.

That’s who we are.