JPW Rope Ascender Floats help fight piracy on the high seas. This flotation device allows a heavy item to be carried by Navy Seals and their counterparts in other countries. The device is a rope ascender with a high gear ratio that can help the good guys board pirated ships and take them back over. This has been a United Nations Sanctioned project in cooperation with China, Singapore, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, and the USA. In the US Navy, Navy seals would be using these to re board pirated ships, using grappling hooks and the ascenders to re-board a captured ship in secret. Then the commandos capture or kill the pirates who have taken the ships.