Laurence Mead

TeamO was founded after a number of high-profile accidents and deaths involving sailors being let down by their lifejacket and tether safety equipment. There was clearly a need for an innovative new approach to life saving design. Oscar Mead (the youngest ever finisher of the solo transatlantic OSTAR race) came up with the idea of a lifejacket thatwill keep a wearer safe if they go overboard whilst tethered to a vessel. The BackTow lifejacket was the result!TeamO launched it's patented BackTow lifejacket harness to the market in Spring 2017, and since then it has received wide spread acclaim - it was even called 'revolutionary' by one of the industry's leading publications.