Our bags are made for us by Carter Lift Bags, the best in underwater lift bags for 40 years!
We have made bags to build an artificial reef in Brazil, raise an astrodome roof, protect a seaside town from flood tides, remove a sunken barge from a busy canal in South America, salvage a convoy truck from a river in Tibet, salvage valuable sunken trees from a river in Canada, raise sunken Spanish treasure in the Carribean, clear an area of boats sunk by a hurricane and many other special uses. We also offer a wide selection of stock sizes for sport and commercial divers.
Contact us for your special needs.
Carter Lift Bag, Inc., the world leader in this highly specialized field makes these remarkable lifting devices for our customers to be shipped direct from the factory to you.
We offer you stock sizes and styles and can custom make bags of any size and configuration for any requirement you may have.
Sooner or later, every diver runs across something in the water that he or she would like to raise to the surface. It could be an anchor, a giant clam, a cannonball, a bag full of fish or lobsters, or even another diver who may be injured or worse.
An inexperienced diver will sometimes attempt to use the lifting capabilities of his buoyancy compensator to accomplish the lift. This is one of the most dangerous mistakes you can make.
If you have overinflated your BCD and are attempting to lift something heavy, and your hold on that object is broken, you will shoot to the surface like a rocket. You remember what your instructor told you would happen to your internal air spaces if you did that. It's not pretty to contemplate.
Experienced divers will frequently carry a lift bag because they know that if they use it only one time, it will more than pay for its low original cost. All you have to do is hook it onto whatever it is you want to lift and bleed in some air from your regulator. It will take your object and you both to the surface as if you were on an elevator.
There is an air dump operated with a cable that runs to the bottom of the bag so you can control the rate of ascent. The air dump is a carefully engineered over-pressure valve designed to adequately vent the air from a fully charged bag on a free ascent from any depth.
There are different lift bags for different purposes.
All our bags have one or more handles and tie-off points to make them easy to grasp and secure both in and out of the water.
All our bags are designed to be folded and rolled into compact, negatively-buoyant rolls that are easy for the diver to handle and deploy underwater.
