rescue rope
Climber's safety tether
A rescue rope is a rope specifically designed or designated for emergency operations—pulling someone from water, lowering them from a height, or extracting them from confined spaces.
Rescue ropes must meet strict standards for strength and reliability since lives depend on them: The crew threw a rescue rope to the swimmers caught in the current.
In technical contexts, rescue rope is distinguished from utility rope, which shouldn't be used when human safety is at stake.
- lifelineEssential connection to safety
- safety lineCord preventing dangerous falls
- cordFlexible twisted strand
- climbAscend using effort
- harnessStraps controlling an animal
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- rescuesave, help, SAR, assist, lifeline
- cordagecord, twine, line, hawser, baling twine
- climbing ropessheath, core
- Water Rescuelife jacket, PFD, inflatable raft, drowning, victim
- public safety equipmentfire extinguisher, smoke detector, fire alarm, defibrillator, AED
- rope typesdouble braid, paracord