A Floating Safe for Your Valuables
I’m not really sure what to make of this new product. It is common sense to keep your important documents in a water-proof, damage-proof safe, and there are plenty of options already available. But this one floats!
The description doesn’t translate terribly well from Czech:
Very important thing is that the safe-ball with it’s protection shell is floating in the water, so it’s size is ride on weight and size of protected valuables. But in case of making decisions between life and death, we don’t need much. The most important thing is to have life-saving stuff and all other things come itself. And if we have on top of that a few loving keepsakes and memories, we can survive! [Source: safe-ball.eu]
A newspaper article from 1918 shows that the concept is not new – Menotti Nanni invented it.
It doesn’t look like the Czech product is available for purchase at this stage, but what interests me is the question it inspires – do you want a floating safe?
- A regular safe will stay put, so you can find it later
- A regular safe is less likely to end up in the hands of someone else
- A floating safe is less likely to be buried – but can still end up trapped
- A floating safe can be tracked if you have a GPS device in it (and a signal can escape)
