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WRSI - Whitewater Safety & Research Institute

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WRSI - Whitewater Safety & Research Institute - brands_2759

Brand Info

Core Products
Helmets
Additional Products
Accessories
Established
1998

Contact

Website
http://www.whitewaterhelmet.com
Phone
+1 (435) 901-2571

Address

Address
P.O. Box 1804
City / Town
Park City
US State / Canada Province
UT
ZIP / Postal Code
84098
Country
USA
The motivation for this project originated from the results of a fatal kayaking accident to Lucas Brandon Turner, who died on the North Fork of the Payette River in Idaho on July 12, 1998, due to the failure of a commercially available helmet to protect his head from blunt trauma.

His father, Gil Turner, established the Whitewater Research & Safety Institute, Inc. (WRSI) as a nonprofit foundation dedicated to making whitewater recreation a safer sport. As such, its current prototype helmet represents the culmination of the Whitewater Head Impact Protection Project (WWHIP) cosponsored by WRSI and Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, MD.

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