Retrieving an unconscious victim from the water was a daunting task. The following strategies were tried and the results were not entirely satisfactory:

* Bosun chairs and safety harnesses were attached to the victim by a helper in the water. This was viewed as a marginal procedure because of the considerable difficulty and time it took to carry out this procedure.

* Dropping an already inflated dinghy in the water was a reasonable approach to the unconscious victim scenario but not without its difficulties.

* The Jacobs Ladder was used (It is a specialized device that is three and a half feet wide and several feet long. it is designed to attach to the toe rail and dropped in the water in order to maneuver the body into it. A halyard then lifts the device and body up.( This worked well in the company's video when a rubber dinghy was used but on a sailboat with a much higher freeboard, it did not work well..

* Putting a sail in the water, much like the Jacobs Ladder (one side was affixed to the deck and the other end dropped in the water to allow for the potential of maneuvering a victim in the bight of the sail.) This could only be described as terrible since the victim rolled face down where the potential for drowning was all too clear.