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SCOTT Sports makes a wide array of outdoor gear, used in various sporting categories. The company recently teamed up with Recco Rescue Systems to start utilizing this potentially life-saving technology in their products. SCOTT’s new line of helmets will incorporate Recco Technology in an attempt to reach more consumers, in turn saving rescue teams time and increasing efficiency. Recco currently has over 150 partners worldwide that utilize this technology.
Recco Rescue Technology began in 1983 with the hopes of reaching a broad spectrum of outdoor enthusiasts. Originally aimed at the ski industry, the goal was to make all who recreated outdoors in the winter searchable in emergency situations. This ingenious idea not only benefits consumers who experience an emergency but also the rescue teams that search for them. Nowadays, most people who enjoy the outdoors in all seasons have at least one piece of gear on their person that utilizes this technology, realizing the dream that Magnus Granhed, founder of Recco, envisioned in the early 1980’s.
SCOTT will incorporate Recco technology into its Flow Pro MIPS Helmet. This line of helmets offers MIPS collision protection along with Recco Technology in case of an avalanche or other scenario involving rescue efforts. Additionally, these helmets include superior ventilation, ‘360 Pure Sound’ technology for better sound transparency while in use, and are made of mostly recycled materials.
Recco Rescue Systems can be utilized in a handheld device or can be implemented in conjunction with a helicopter to search broad areas. This technology is used at over 900 ski resorts worldwide with more companies and resorts joining the program each year. Certainly, having a renowned company like SCOTT Sports onboard will make a difference in reaching as many outdoorsy folks as possible.
About SCOTT
SCOTT Sports began in 1958, in Sun Valley, Idaho, revolutionizing ski poles as we know them. It was the first to use a tapered aluminum design that quickly made steel and bamboo obsolete in ski pole manufacturing. The company continued innovations by joining the motocross field in the 1970’s introducing the first motocross specific goggle. SCOTT subsequently entered the cycling genre in the 1980s and began roots in the ski industry in the 1990s.
As long as there is a recco-less person to operate the equipment. Ski patrollers cut those things out of their clothes so they will be able to participate in searches.