The most under studied, under funded item and out of date piece of equipment in the helicopter over-water operation is the inflatable life raft. This was brought to the attention of the NATO community in 1998 in an RTO paper titled “The abysmal performance of the inflatable life raft in helicopter ditchings by this author [9]. On the marine side, the introduction of the Totally Enclosed Motor Propeller Survival Craft (TEMPSC) has been an improvement over the open “Titanic type of life boats, but these life boats still have a long way to go in design.