Hi we are HydroFLOcean and our company motto is linking people to safety our
product idea stems from a recent tragedy that happened in Limerick in August 2015
Two men were working on a maintenance platform on the Thomand
bridge the cable holding the platform failed sending the platform and the men into the water
The workers were wearing harnesses connected to the platform and life jackets as it became submerged in water
their lifejackets inflated and they were unable to detach themselves and sadly
they drowned, this tragedy led us to develop the H-FLO
The H-FLO is an attachment for a safety harness designed to be used when working
over water attached to a fixed object whether a cherry picker maintenance
platform or anything that can potentially become submerged in the
event of a maintenance platform becoming submerged in water
the H-FLO's gas canister with 10 mPa of pressure forces out a 10 mm stainless steel pin enabling the two sides of the shafts to come
loose so the user can be brought to safety by the buoyancy of the life jacket
We set out designing a 3D model of the H flow using Autodesk Inventor the
majority of the H-FLO was made by hand by the group we discussed the design
issues and then we discussed the design issues again when work did begin we
started cutting filing drilling using the lathe and milling machine to make
the shafts after that we did more filing with all the parts made we started
welding the parts together
we began doing underwater testing to assess the proof of concept and it was a
success we performed a tensile test of the prototype and the result was that
the shafts can handle up to 60 kn load before failure
the equivalent weight of six cars next we did some basic economic field testing
with the prototype attached to a harness Stephen Scully water safety Development
Officer for Cork City Council was interested to hear about the device and
expressed his interest in the concept and Jason Carroll, Foreman BAM Services
who works in aquatic environments using a mobile elevated work platform believes
the H-FLO could save lives
we estimated the cost for a mass production of the H flow is around 72
euro and 25 cent per unit the higher end safety harnesses retail at around 300
$99.99 and we can position the H-FLO around this range potential markets
include construction companies government bodies such as the ESB
and County Council's though further investigation is needed we believe that
we have a profitable important product that could save lives
the next step is to rigorously test our working prototype and ensure we meet
full safety requirements this will require further research into safety
regulations we believe that a device such as H-FLO could become a mandatory
safety device on working over water
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