Automated Aquatic Rescue

Lift anyone, any size.

A CO₂-inflated rescue device that adapts to the person — no sizing, no fitting — and carries them to the surface in seconds.

Patent pending (CA) · Prototype in build · LEAP 2026, Riyadh

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Aquaris Rescue Ring, design render
300,000Drowning deaths worldwide each year
1 in 4Are children under five
77%Of child victims were missing five minutes or less
20–60sThe window a person stays above water
The Gap

When a pool is unattended, nobody comes.

Detection cameras exist. Alarms exist. But an alarm is not a rescue — someone still has to enter the water, find the person, and bring them up. In an unattended pool at 2 a.m., that someone does not exist.

Drowning is also silent. A drowning child cannot call out or wave; the body's instinctive response takes over and there is no splashing to hear. Most child victims were missing for five minutes or less when they were found.

Lift bagsProvide buoyancy, but cannot catch or hold a person.
Robotic clawsGrip in one place. They crush, and they cannot lift a body.
Detection systemsOnly watch. They raise an alarm and wait for a human.
Nothing on the market physically retrieves a submerged person.

Sources: WHO drowning fact sheet · US CPSC in-home drowning data · Instinctive drowning response, F. A. Pia

Why Saudi Arabia

The Kingdom is building the pools.

PIF's approved 2026–2030 strategy commits to more than 100,000 new hotel rooms and over 70 tourism experiences. Nearly every resort room comes with pool access — NEOM, Red Sea Global, Qiddiya, Diriyah, plus Aquarabia, the world's largest water theme park, already open at Qiddiya.

Unattended private and hotel pools are the region's quiet risk: villa compounds, rooftops, resorts. In January 2026 the Saudi Red Sea Authority issued the Kingdom's first requirements for beach operators — lifeguards, signage, emergency plans and approved rescue equipment on site — in force from February 2026.

Design stageSafety systems cost least when specified into new builds rather than retrofitted.
No lifeguard hoursMost of these pools are unsupervised outside limited hours, or entirely.
First moverNo country currently leads water-safety technology. The standard is unset.

Sources: PIF 2026–2030 tourism strategy · Arab News — beach operator requirements

The Device

Surround. Inflate. Rise.

01

Surround

Curved arms close a ring around the torso — or around any object. A distributed soft grip, never a claw.

02

Inflate

A bladder expands inside the ring. The person or object is secured before any lift is applied, so nothing can slip free during ascent.

03

Rise

Buoyancy lifts. A self-regulating pressure valve keeps the ascent steady rather than runaway — with no electronics involved.

Compact until it matters.

Telescoping arms stow flat along the body, so the whole device stays small enough to carry, mount or dock. They deploy to a full ring and latch closed before the lift begins.

Beyond that, the mechanism is the subject of a pending patent application and is not described publicly.

Aquaris ring, deployed
Three Versions, One Capture Head

The same mechanism, three ways to deliver it.

Each version shares the capture head that surrounds, inflates and lifts. What changes is how it gets to the water — and who is holding it.

Manual

Handheld

A handheld rescue tool carried to the water's edge and deployed by hand. No training time, no sizing.

Boat owners, pools, lifeguards, dive teams
Prototype in build
Remote

Tethered ROV

A tethered vehicle flown by an operator who stays dry on land or deck. Reaches depths and conditions a diver should not.

Police, fire, salvage, offshore, utilities
Design complete
Autonomous

Detect & dispatch

Detects an incident, dispatches itself, retrieves, and returns to dock. Installed at the pool rather than carried to it.

Hotels, resorts, giga-projects, water parks
Architecture defined
Recovery

The same head recovers objects.

A ring that closes around a torso closes around a toolbox, a sensor pod or a section of pipe just as well. Nothing on the market grabs and lifts a submerged object without a diver going down to make the attachment.

That matters commercially as well as technically: object recovery carries none of the life-safety certification burden, so it reaches customers sooner — and every recovery hardens the same mechanism the rescue versions depend on.

Aquaris capture head
Offshore & energyDropped tools and subsea equipment, without mobilising a dive team.
Salvage & wrecksWater too deep, too cold or too dangerous to put a diver in.
Ports & utilitiesIntakes, dams and harbours — debris and equipment retrieval.
Police & forensicEvidence recovered with minimal disturbance to the scene.
Development

The geometry is resolved.

The full ring assembly is modelled and dimensioned, and the mechanism has been through several printed and assembled revisions — tested against the requirement that matters most in a rescue: that it opens smoothly, every time, and never jams. The first complete prototype is in build.

CAD assembly model
Assembly model — full ring geometry
Where We Are

Honest status.

Stage
Engineering development — prototype in build. Not yet offered for sale.
Intellectual property
Canadian patent application in progress, 142 claims. Patent pending.
Regulatory
Marine safety certification not yet completed.
Validation
Performance goals are engineering design targets. Open-water and pool trials not yet completed.
Open to
Investors, distribution partners, and pilot sites in the Gulf and North America.
Who We Are

Rescue experience on one side. Systems and Gulf access on the other.

Mohammad Khamseh

Founder · Medical & Rescue

Four years a lifeguard and several as a paramedic — he has faced this failure in person. BSc Health Sciences, BSc Biology, MD in progress. Conceived the mechanism and authored the 142-claim patent application. Based in Manitoba, Canada.

Adil Qureshi

Co-founder · Technology & Gulf

Cybersecurity specialist leading systems, security and the autonomous software stack. Part-Saudi, based between Canada and the Kingdom.

Contact

Talk to us.

Investment, distribution, pilot programmes, or a question about the device — write to us directly and we will answer.