Man Over Board light from Exposure Marine nominated for DAME Award

by Liz Rushall on 30 Oct 2014 Exposure Marine is one of six brands nominated for a DAME award in the lifesaving and safety category.

Entirely British designed and manufactured, Exposure’s innovative, immensely powerful Man Overboard (MOB) strobe and search light, will ensure you can be found fast and does not even need to be switched on!

Exposure Marine set about designing the light with the focus on their mantra 'Engineered for Safety – Built for Life'.

This indispensible little light detects when it is being thrown through the air, and switches onto strobe mode automatically when it hits the water. With a high powered 1300 lumens LED strobe it is designed to save lives at sea, and will outlast a casualty in Northern European water temperatures.



In that terrifying situation of a loved one going overboard, what would you want with you to ensure they could be instantly located?

Exposure’s innovative, immensely powerful Man Overboard (MOB) strobe and search light, will ensure you can be found fast. This indispensible little light, designed to save lives at sea, does not even need to be switched on!

When every second counts in a man overboard situation, its intelligent, motion activated technology means it can be simply thrown towards a person afloat. Once it hits the water a contact is created, and its highly visible, 1300 lumens strobe remains flashing until the water contact is broken. The MOB burn times last for one hour on high mode, five on medium and 20 hours on low.

Exposure’s patented Man Over Board Technology (MOBT), ensures the search light cannot be activated accidentally, and that no time is wasted with mechanical switches in an emergency. Programmed to sense motion when the MOB is initially picked up, it triggers the positive and negative charge terminals to actively seek a connection for a period of 30 seconds. The strobe starts flashing, after eight consecutive seconds in the water when the connection is confirmed.

Exposure’s patented Man Over Board Technology (MOBT), ensures the search light cannot be activated accidentally, and that no time is wasted with mechanical switches in an emergency. Programmed to sense motion when the MOB is initially picked up, it triggers the positive and negative charge terminals to actively seek a connection for a period of 30 seconds. The strobe starts flashing, after eight consecutive seconds in the water when the connection is confirmed.

Once activated, the MOB light auto-checks the connection every 60 seconds. If the water connection has ceased, it will deactivate to save battery life.

The MOB, which also doubles as a search light, is stored head down in a choice of lifejacket or wall mounted holster enabling the Quick Find Button to remain visible. The button also provides live battery feedback on the strobe’s remaining burntime, showing when it is time to recharge. A fully charged MOB light will remain active for 10 days.

As well as the strobe, the MOB has a 1300 lumens, high power spot light to pinpoint an object and provide a periphery beam to illuminate the surrounding area.

Totally buoyant, housed in a high visibility orange aluminium waterproof casing, it is IPX8 rated to 5m depth. Weighing just 116gms, the lightweight MOB fits comfortably in the palm of your hand, and offers high output modes for trimming or spotting, and also supplies hours of runtime on lower modes for general use.

The Exposure MOB comes with two program modes. The first offers a high, medium and low output brightness modes for varying situations and is activated by simply double clicking the Quick Find Button. Program two is a single click option, for an instant rapid switch on/off, developed for professional sail trimmers to protect their eyes at night.

The MOB lights will be on board Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing throughout the current 2014/15 Volvo Ocean Race, acting as both trimming light and Man Over Board strobe light. The crew have mounted the lights at various locations on the Volvo 65 Azzam, to enable quick grab access.

Retailing at £179.95 / €229.95 the light is supplied with:

• Quick grab holster with Velcro and water resistant adhesive attachment
• Carriage holster with Velcro belt loop, security loop and water resistant adhesive attachment
• USB charging lead
• Quick Start Guide
• Reflective Dyneema wrist lanyard Exposure Marine