With over 300 drownings since 2010, and 62 this past Summer alone, the Great Lakes have some of the highest drowning rates in the United States. In recent years, an enormous effort from groups like the Great Lakes Surf Rescue Project and other Fire, Paramedic and Police based agency members have been […]
During our Global Drowning Tracker presentation to Congress this past May, we got to meet film director Shawnelle King. After a brief interview at the International Water Safety Day summit in D.C., Shawnelle said she’d like to meet with us at our HQ in So. California to learn more about the Global Drowning Tracker. A […]
We have had our heads down and busy working hard this Summer so much that we almost missed an important mile stone and celebration: ISLA turned five years old! Our official birth date is August 25, 2008 and since our humbling beginnings we wanted to take a brief moment to highlight some of our past […]
The Global Drowning Tracker© 1.0 has been quite a success story… Having been unveiled at the NDPA Symposium in March, presented to the U.S. Congress in May, featured on numerous media outlets, and will now be making it’s way to the World Conference on Drowning Prevention in Potsdam Germany this October! Drowning Tracker at World […]
The inflatable rescue board has been one of the most effective and innovative lifesaving tools to enable ISLA to continue its efforts all over the globe. Designed not only for durability, performance and dependability, the portable and light-weight characteristics make it ideal for travel and transportation. This Summer our teams took a C4 Waterman Board […]
Our recent ISLA trips to Europe proved to be a massive success for gaining worldwide impressions for the ISLA brand, for the agencies we worked alongside with, and for ISLA’s incredible sponsors. Why the importance of strong media attention? At ISLA we believe first and foremost that awareness is the number 1 step in taking […]
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