Mustang Survival’s latest inflatable PFD, the Atlas 190 DLX Hammar incorporates everything the highly respected marine safety company has learned about PFDs over the last four decades. This new, sculpted, soft-shoulder design has a low profile yet packs all the details you need in a life jacket and safety harness.
It has been well received in the market, too, by both consumers and the judges of the most prestigious product awards. It won the 2023 DAME design award at METS, Time magazine’s Best Invention Award 2024 and the 2025 Innovation Award judged by Boating Writers International at the Miami Boat Show.
The Atlas 190 DLX has been designed to fit comfortably on your chest, shoulders and back with large arm apertures and low profile so you won’t feel encumbered while working on deck. Mustang has figured out that if a PFD fits both men and women comfortably, we will wear it. That’s the first rule of safety.
The Atlas has New ADAPT Technology with shaped bladder lobes for face-up positioning, baffle barriers to dissipate waves and an integrated pillow for head stability. Keeping a person face up with his head above water has proven to be a key safety feature.
Note the single leg strap instead of two straps found on most harnesses. This will be easy to clip in place and thus will be used, unlike the double leg-strap versions, which are awkward to put on so often are left off.
The new design has attachment points for a whistle, an AIS personal locator beacon, and a SOLAS approved light. The inflation device uses Hammar technology that reduces the chance of an accidental inflation when dowsed with spray of in a rain storm.
The sprat hood, which deploys at the back of the neck and is fitted over your head easily will go a long way to prevent a secondary drowning from heavy seas. This feature, first seen a decade ago, has been perfected by Mustang.
With 188N of buoyancy even a large man in full foul weather gear and sea boots will be floated as high as possible, even if injured. At $369, the Atlas 190 DLX Hammar deserves all the praise judges have proffered and will be a top choice when we’re next in the market for an inflatable PFD/safety harness.
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