At
this time the helicopter had been destroyed by two maverick missiles. The only
thing that was salvageable was the Pelican case. The case was completely intact
with minor burns and one broken latch. The contents of the case all functioned
properly, nothing was damaged. The case contained 6 satellite phones, an electronic
radio system, a highly sensitive digital camera and a block of C-4 explosive.
We used the case and equipment throughout our stay in Iraq, which lasted a few
months. Thank you for a fine product. Your product is a definite asset in the
fight for freedom.
Jason
Bitterman - Oda 551
Extreme
Combat Luggage
On
October 6, 2004,
my vehicle suffered an
Improvised Explosive
Device (IED) attack.
I was sitting in the
front passenger seat
and my case was
located on the floor
between my feet. The
explosion happened
directly under my feet,
ripping the entire engine compartment apart.
If
it wasn't for the 1150 case, I would not have been able to send
you these pictures. Once again, thanks for a great product!
Worry-Free
Luggage
When
I tried to drive
the Camel Trophy
Land Rover Discovery
up a steep slope to a
higher road the vehicle
tipped over. We rolled
down tumbling sideways
until we stopped lying
on the side. During the
tumble only one Pelican
was damaged because
it had hit a rock. I was
amazed even more to
find
that nothing inside the cases was damaged. Since the Pelican cases performed
so well during the Camel Trophy I am no longer surprised about their strength
and can count on them to roll with the punches.
Linda and Gerard Blankestijn, Team Holland
No
In-Flight Movie Offered
The plane hit with such force that it sheered the left wing and float right
off and as
the plane rapidly sunk, everyone was able to escape out the exits. For over
nine
hours, the plane was submerged some 6-8 feet under water, loosely held to the
right pontoon! When we were finally allowed to recover our gear, I was planning
for the worst, because the water damage or impact had destroyed just about
everyone's gear. But when I opened the lid on my Pelican 1650 case, I was
astonished to find that there was very little water inside and everything was
intact!
Crushed
Ice — Optional
We
chose the best gear
that we could get our
hands on, including
Pelican boxes to
safeguard our camera
gear, radios and satellite telephone. At 81° North latitude, one of our
plastic kayaks, with a
Pelican box mounted
on deck, became caught
in
the current-driven ice pack and was thoroughly steam-rolled. Many items loaded
inside the kayak were crushed, but the Pelican deck box emerged through it all
unscathed. Steve Smith, Adventurer
Small
Investment, Big Protection
When
the officer returned, the case had obviously been run over and sported tire
tracks. Even though the case was severely scratched with a destroyed corner
and latch, the very expensive digital camera it housed was completely protected
and in good working condition. We returned the case and received a new one no
questions
asked. The case that ended up costing around $36, protected an item worth roughly
20 times more, turned out to be a pretty good investment! Ken Jones — Westminster Police Department, California
Pelican
Cat-Chow
On
a recent trip through Zimbabwe the 1150 Pelican case became the prey of a member
of the carnivore family. Shumba, less than
a year old, pounced on the
case and subjected it to its
inch long canines. The Pelican case withstood its brush with the jaws of death
and also the rock bashing hike into the Zambezi valley and all the whitewater
Ross encountered
in the following weeks. Ross O’Donoghue
Man’s
Best Friend
As
I emptied the water
out of my canoe on the
shore, I lifted the case
and it felt heavy like a
case filled with water.
Maybe I didn't get any
pictures on this trip, but
I still had my dog and
that was good enough
for me. For the remainder
of the trip, the camera sat untouched in its Pelican
case. Later on when my
wife picked me up, I told
her the story, as I have
told you, and asked that
she open the case for
me.
She did, and the camera was DRY! Thank you Pelican™. Patrick Crawley
The
Cell Phone Survived the Tsunami
David
used a Peli case to carry his sensitive equipment - GPS, housing, cameras, phone,
sea maps, tide charts… “I dropped the
box
a long way back from the waters edge before running in. Before I knew it, I
was out helping to save boats and people caught in the churning, powerful waters.
I suddenly thought of my box that was out in that disaster probably flooded
and ruined! The next day, the box was found 2 km's south west of the island.
I opened it… and with a bit of a shock I found everything bone dry, and
in working order with only missed calls on my cell phone. All the rest of my
gear was gone, but that box was the most important to me. Thank you very much;
keep up the good work!” David Brown, dive Master. Hampshire UK. 2005
9
Out Of Ten Camels Prefer Pelican
My
buddy and I purchased four camels in the Thar
Desert of India and rode a thousand kilometers to the border of Nepal. All of
our delicate gear – cameras, computers, solar panels,
and a satellite phone – were protected by Pelican boxes. When you see
one of your
1,200 pound pack camels
rolling
in the sand, scraping against a tree, or bucking like
a bronco, you want the best gear protection poss ible. Pelican boxes are the
answer. Pelican boxes are watertight, dust proof, rust proof, and camel proof.
Jim Wiltens, Adventurer
The
Horse Has a lot To Say…
During
a long trekking expedition in Zanskar
and Ladakh, in Northern
India we had all our stuff
on horseback. About half
way through the trip one
of the horses ponies overbalanced and fell
from the track into the
water.
The horse was unhurt beyond a couple of scratches, but
the case had been dragged underwater, banged on rocks for a
good while and dragged out again. I opened the case and
discovered that my Hasselblad®, my spare Nikon body
several lenses, dozens of films and a DAT recorder and tapes
for my audio work, were all completely unharmed and dry! Mike Harding, BBC presenter, travel, writer, poet, playwright. www.mikeharding.co.uk
The
SabreLite allowed me to
save another life
As
I have owned my
Super SabreLite for
long time ago and used
it for personal use and
in my job as a fire fighter,
I can't tell you how great
of a light it has been
for me. Some months
ago, while at a fire, I
accidentally
dropped my light between a wall
space. It fell about 5 to 6 meters before hitting the concrete floor below.
My first thoughts were of disappointment, for I didn't think that I would be
able to retrieve it. After getting out of the attic space that I was in, I walked
around to the other side of the wall, to my relief there just happened to be
an opening in the base of the wall where my SabreLite landed. It was still shining
when I picked it up, and after a quick inspection I couldn't find a thing wrong
with it. After this I carried searching the bedrooms of the house where I found
an elderly lady whom we successfully removed from the house. I was amazed because
I feel that the quality of the light allowed me to save the life of another
human being. Thank you!! I will continue using the Super SabreLite for the rest
of my career. Keep up the great work! François, professional fire fighter. 2005
Peli
Cases Don't Get Sea-sick
I
make long voyages
aboard my own small
yacht, "Piper". My
camera and laptop are accommodated by two
1500 PeliTM Cases
and a Navman chart
plotter fits in the
smaller 1200 Case.
Before starting my
trip I did a test by
throwing my Peli Case
1500
loaded with old camera bodies and lenses into the water,
and it floated happily. No water had gone inside. The I took
the Cases on board for three months of continuous sailing and
photography. They have been stood on, sat on, loaded in and
out of boats and vehicles and on a variety of assignments,
even in foul weather – By the end of the trip there was light
scuffing on the outside and foam insert was a little worn but
most important - its precious contents have come through it
all unscathed! David Rainsbury, Journalist and Sailor, freelance for
several sailing magazines www.rainsbury.co.uk
Sea
Water Surrounded Them for Twelve Days'
My
epic journey (3341
miles between La Gomera – Canaries - and Barbados -
West Indies), on my own, unassisted and unsupported,
took me 109 days 12 hours
and nine minutes. In a very
bad storm the boat nearly capsized. The hatch was not sealed completely and
the
cabin was flooded. The back
cabin had 20 cm of water in
and the Peli™ boxes containing the on board
video equipment were
totally soaked and partly
submerged
by sea water. It took me 12 days to get the cabin fully dry after the event.
No water got in to the boxes and no equipment was damaged. I would gladly endorse
Peli™ Products for anyone else planning an extreme adventure. Stuart
C. Boreham, The first physically disabled person who successfully rowed the
Atlantic Ocean
Katerina
Petronilho. Czech Republic
SIEZA, s.r.o.
Dusan
Festa. Czech Republic
Steamship on the Vltava (Moldau) river
Moldau,
Prague
Evenign
in the Elbe
MALAS (CASES) - CASOS REAIS
Abaixo
depoimentos verídicos de utilização das cases Pelican.
São histórias íncriveis sobre a resistência e
durabilidade das cases.
Os depoimentos estão em inglês e em breve será traduzido
para o português.
Fotos
pelo mundo de usuários das Cases Pelican
Marco
Luzzani. Italy
Luis
Heras. Spain
Rafting
en el Zambeze, Victoria falls, Zimbabwe. El río más duro necesita
el material más resistente.
Rafting in the Zambeze River, Victoria Fall, Zimbabwe. The toughest river
requires the most resistant material.
Rafting
en el Zambeze, Victoria falls, Zimbabwe.
Rafting in the Zambeze River, Victoria Fall, Zimbabwe.
Todo
nuestro material resiste la prueba más dura del mundo gracias a Peli.
All our material resists the world's toughest competition thanks to Peli.
Peli
salvó nuestro material fotográfico en el Dakar 2006 tras ser
impactados por un camión de asistencia en Zouerat, Mauritania. Todo
nuestro trabajo sobrevivió.
Peli protected our photo equipment in Dakar 2006 from the impact of an assisting
truck in Zouerat, Mauritania . Thanks to that, all our work survived.
Martin
Wehrli. Switzerland
Thomas
Sadewasser. Germany
Gianni
Pavan. Italy
Paul
Newell. UK
The best case in the world for the best sniper rifle in the world.
Simon
Buckley. UK
Covert Wireless CCTV solution system and battery buried in the ground to
monitor fly tipping.
Josef
Soukup. Czech Republic
This summer I spent my holiday on the wild "white" water in Switzerland.
This black river is Hinterrhein after torrential rain.
Henrik
Flensborg. Denmark
Andrés
Magai. Spain
Ben
Osborne. UK
CISAR.
Italy
Associazione Radioamatori.
Günther
Druivenga. Germany
Seismic shear shaft measuring in Banda Aceh for the reconstruction. The
Peli cases helped us here with complex measuring techniques in a tough area
with very high air humidity. GEOSYM - Geophysikalische Messsysteme. www.geosym.de
Frank
de Brouwer. The Netherlands
Peli case in use as Launch Controller box in High Power Rocketry.
Robert
Tanner. Switzerland
Photo from the "North-Ice-Explorer" expedition. Website: www.north-ice-explorer.org.
Our invention: the Geocairn (temporary container)
Pedro
Urech Bedoya. Spain
Mi maletita Peli siempre protegerá mis lentes y baterías,
necesarias para que pueda seguir fotografiando.
My MicroCase will always protect my glasses and batteries, to keep taking
pictures.
Andrea
Guglielmetti. Switzerland
I was looking for a resistant bag for my bow and Peli is the perfect case!!
Gérard-Albert
Legrand. France
An unforgettable moment of happiness, when inside the Peli case
the ice-cold champagne was waiting…
Nicholas
Chassings. Zambia
I have a rafting company on the Zambezi River . We use Peli cases for our
first-aid equipment, still and video cameras.
Luis
López Martínez. Spain
LETS-Engineering BV
Nuestro trabajo es mantenimiento de plataformas de extracción de
petróleo en el Mar del Norte. El ambiente es extremadamente duro
no solo para las personas y las maquinas asi como para las maletas que protegen
nuestro equipamiento tanto durante el trabajo como durante el transporte
hacia la plataforma y desde la plataforma.
We are really satisfied with the Peli cases. Our job is the maintenance
of oil-extraction platforms in the North Sea . This is an extrem tough reality,
not only for the people involved, but also for the machines and for the
cases that protect our equipment and transport it to and from the platform.
Hugo
Ferreira. Portugal
FEUP-LSTS
We
use two PELI cases to do some tests to our Outdoor Wifi network: the 1490
PELI with a laptop computer is our base station and the 1620 PEli case is
the power supply and wifi communications center. The test consists in leaving
the two cases outdoors for few days to work as a mobile outdoor, all weather,
communications data link with the University Wifi network.
Right
now we are doing an Autonomous Surface Vehicle that consists on a fiberglass
5 meters catamaran that will work autonomously to collect oceanographic
data. Two 1620 PELI cases are placed in the catamaran; one stores one the
battery pack power supply and the other the CPU and sensors pack. The catamaran
will go to water next month. We chose Pelis because the catamaran will be
exposed to sea water for some time and Peli cases were our best choice for
that type of conditions.
Thomas
Blum. Switzerland.
The name of my picture is "Absolute Faith"… guess why J
Enrique
Ogando Lastra. Spain
Utilización de una maleta Peli para proteger materiales fotográficos
en exploraciones espeleológicas. Fotografía hecha en los
Picos de Europa (España), profundidad -800 m.
We use the Peli case to protect photo equipment in speleological explorations.
This picture was taken in the mountains "Picos de Europa" (Spain),
depth 800 m.
Marcin
Gala. Poland
Caver at -270m in Sniezna Cave, the deepest cave in Poland.
Caver
at -270m in Sniezna Cave.
Manolo
Ovalle. Spain
Fotograf í a de Julio y Agosto de 2006, en la terraza del hotel Rest
House, en Tyr, sur del L í bano durante la reciente guerra. El Hotel
era el lugar mas "seguro" para los periodistas que est á
bamos desplazados a la zona, de los bombardeos Israel í es. La prensa
Internacional inform á bamos desde esa terraza. Las cajas Peli, son
utilizadas por las TV para desplazar sus equipos.
Picture from July/August 2006, at the Hotel Rest House, in Tyr (South of
Lebanon) during the current war. This hotel was the "safest" one
for journalists and we would film the news from this terrace, while the
bombing was going on. Peli cases are used to transport TV equipment.
Patryk
Wezowski. Belgium
With our toddlers Aiden and Noë in a 4x4 we drove during 3 months and
lived like nomads in the desert ( Timbuktu , West Africa ). Peli supported
us in this adventure keeping our equipment safe from dust and sand.
RACCO BRASIL
DISTRIBUIDOR EXCLUSIVO LANTERNAS E MALAS PELICAN PARA O BRASIL
