The survival contents can be specified by the customer in order to suit the environment of use. Survival Equipment Packed Inside of Life raftĮxhausted and possibly injured survivors do not have to spend additional energy trying to pull and lift the equipment into the raft as life saving equipment is packed into the life raft, ensuring quick and easy access. To increase life, the content are vacuum packed. The HARK and ARK units are identical and interchangeable, with compact design that aids in handling, portability and storage. The life raft is packed in a way to promote a “right way up” attitude during inflation. A fast-acting, automatically-deployed sea anchor improves raft inflation and stability characteristics. The life-rafts are inflated upon water entry by a compressed gas cylinder. The accuracy of delivery is enhanced by a proprietary water-activated device which inflates the life-raft upon the kit’s immersion in water and minimises wind drift during descent. An added feature is the option to disengage the drogue chute for low level drops. The HARK System includes a drogue chute to slow and stabilise the descent to a safe velocity on water impact. Up to two kits, with a buoyant connecting rope, can be dropped, allowing refuge for 12 – 20 persons in one deployment pass. Each kit that is deployed provides a 10 man life raft, with sufficient survival contents to sustain life for 6 – 10 persons for 24 hours. It is an air-to-sea rescue system which is manually deployed from rotary winged aircraft. The HARK, Helicopter Aerial Rescue Kit, is the most advanced search and rescue aerial deployed life raft system on the market.