One of the things all of us at Mustang takes pride in is the innovative nature of our company. A few months back Canadian Olympian David Ford, qualified for the Beijing games and approached us to help design a life jacket for him. David finished fourth at the last Olympics in Athens and also has one gold (1999) and one silver (2003) at world championships. Our research team jumped at the opportunity to help him out.
As I write this, the spectacular Beijing Olympic games opening ceremonies are underway. I made sure I was up early enough to catch some of the event on TV while I was getting ready for work this morning. I don’t know about you, but it’s always moving for me when my country enters the stadium at the games. Today was no different.
A few weeks back I got a call from our partners at the Canadian Red Cross asking if they could borrow some life jackets for a photo shoot with the Olympic Swim Team. How could I say no? I have uploaded the pictures to our Flickr page.
I’ll have another Olympic story to share with you in days to come. In the mean time, Go Canada!
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Mustang Survival was proud to sponsor this production through our dealer West Marine. Here’s the the synopsis:
Fifteen young sailors…six months of intense training…one chance at the brass ring. This documentary tells the inspiring story of a group of intrepid and determined young men and women, on the cusp of adulthood, as they embark on life’s first great adventure. Racing a high-performance 52-foot sloop in the TRANSPAC, the most revered of open-ocean sailing competitions, the crew of “Morning Light” matches wits and skills in a dramatic 2300 mile showdown against top professionals. From their earliest training sessions in Hawaii conducted by world-class teachers through their test of endurance on the high seas, they form an unbreakable bond in the process of becoming a singular team that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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On Saturday, I spent a wonderful day taking part of the 10th annual Variety Boat for Hope event in False Creek, Vancouver. Variety puts on a wonderful and fun event where over 300 children who have special needs (and their caregivers) get to dress up as pirates and sail on a boat in search for treasure!
The kids are all suited up in their Mustang foam vests for their adventure. They encounter many, many pirates, get super soaked with water guns and seek for treasure! The crew from Mustang was all dressed up ready to surrender their treasure to the children. We had a couple inflatable boats and took turns giving out the portable coolers supplied by our customer Steveston Marine. We did a pretty good job protecting our vessel and none of us dropped one in the water!
It’s so rewarding seeing the smiles on the children’s faces, as we hand over our goodies and let them soak us with their hoses and water guns. I have to admit that 5 hours of water fighting with kids, co-workers and the whole boating community can be exhausting, but incredibly fun! I can’t wait to do this again next year!! Ahoy Matey’s!!!!
Ladies Lets Go Fishing offers training and real hands-on experience to learn how to fish, and a chance to go fishing on the water! One of the skills the ladies learn at the weekend seminars is boat handling. We are proud to support them by equipping their boat with our Inflatable PFD with HIT in hot pink! There are seminars coming up in Sarasota in August and another one in Islamorada in September.
They sent me some pictures today from past seminars in Ft. Lauderdale and Stuart and I have posted them up on Flickr. Take a look!
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Recently CTV did a story on Canadian Researchers doing a study on the elusive Greenland shark in the Canadian Arctic. The team headed by Dr. Steven Campana fished through a five-foot diameter hole drilled through three feet of ice, and caught an average of two Greenland sharks each day.
On average, the sharks are between 2.5 and 3.5 metres in length, weighing in between 500 and 700 pounds. If the sharks were dead when they were hauled to the surface researchers would perform an autopsy. If they were still alive, they recorded their measurements, tagged them with satellite tracking devices and released them in order to learn more about their habits. CTV
Lifejackets have come a long way! They are no longer the big bulky bring orange life preservers from the past. Now they are sleek, comfortable and dare I say a little stylish.
Today, May 15th is Red Cross National Lifejacket Day in Canada and Mustang Survival is proud to partner with the Red Cross in
spreading their important boating safety message.
