Keep Your Head Above Water with an Astral Organic Kapok PFD
Astral Buoyancy, makers of PFDs for kayakers, rafters and sailors, went seeking an environmentally benign alternative to the petrochemical foams, like PVC, commonly used in Personal Flotation Devices. They found the answer, as a guy called Bob once famously wrote, ‘blowin’ in the wind.’
More precisely they rediscovered Kapok, the wooly floss-like fibre that protects the seed of the Cieba pentandra tree. The fibre, eight times lighter than cotton, assists in the wind propelled propogation of the seed, which is normally only released about five years or so. What Astral also discovered was that this fibre h…