Method and device for launching a device for lifesaving at sea from a height in excess of its maximum søsætningshøjde

The invention relates to means for launching a life-saving device (1) from a height H that is greater than a predetermined height hmax which life-saving device is designed to be able to be launched in free fall from a maximum height h max · an end of a drop (4) is hooked to the life-saving device, or to sosaetningsstedet (2); decreased cooperate operatively with (at 7) with respectively sosaetningsstedet or life-saving device, so that the life-saving device, which falls due to gravitational force, is braked and / or by decreased over at least a portion (H-h max) of the height of fall. By controlling the braking effect hits the life-saving device that falls from the height H in a braked manner over at least a portion (H-h max) of this height, the surface of the water (5) with a kinetic energy not exceeding that which it would have at the end of an unbraked free fall from a maximum height h max.