Recovery is a visibility problem as much as a buoyancy one, and it is decided before anything is moulded.

Orientation first

Ring weight low, volume high, and the fob self-rights with a face to the sky.

Get that wrong and the brightest colour on the market is pointing underwater.

Fluorescent for daylight

Orange and yellow-green are the two that hold up at distance in daylight.

They read against open water and against a dark hull, which most colours do not.

Reflective for a beam

Reflective returns light to its source, so it needs a torch to do anything.

At dusk it is transformative. At noon it is decoration.

Size the visible face, not the fob

A large fob with a small printed face is not a visible fob.

We put the high-visibility colour on the upward face and keep the mark out of its way.