Our History

2002

Fredrik Falkman launches the RescueRunner project as his bachelor paper in Industrial Design at Konstfack. The project is sponsored by SSRS.

2003

Tests of the first prototype of RescueRunner are done by Swedish Sea Rescue Society. Helicopter H99 crashes outside Gothenburg.

2004

Lt Lars-Bertyl Rystrand at the helicopter base starts a fundraiser in the name of the diseased helicopter crew. The aim is to fund one RescueRunner. The fundraiser was a huge success and funded the first six RescueRunners donated to the Swedish Sea Rescue Society.

2006

Kaj Lehtovaara, Peter Alexandersson and Magnus Ahlstrand starts Safe at Sea and signs an agreement with SSRS about manufacturing and sales right of RescueRunner.

2008

Safe at Sea launches on the stock exchange AktieTorget

2009

RescueRunner Cradle is developed within the FiRST project. Safe at Sea starts its own production facilities in Kungälv north of Gothenburg.

2013

Critical Infrastructure and Coastal Protection Authority (CICPA) in United Arab Emirates acquires eight RescueRunners.

2014

RescueRunner is CE approved.

RescueRunner is the first rescue system being approved to do rescue tests underneath a BP oil platform in the North Sea.

2015

Norwegian Sea Rescue Society, RS, decides to invest in RescueRunner.

2016

Estonian Police and Border Guard purchases 10 GuardRunners