Abstract: The invention relates to a device for supporting a person lying down. The device comprises a vertical breathing hole designed to allow a person to lie face down and continue breathing. In a preferred embodiment where this device is a raft, there is additional provision for breathing so that there is a series of lateral breathing holes disposed above a waterline. In this way, when a person lies face down, that person places their face adjacent to these breathing holes, and draws air into their lungs. Thus, the person does not have to turn their head to the side to breathe.

Abstract: A combined poncho-mattress formed of a substantially rectangular main sheet of pliable, air-tight and water-proof material centrally provided with a transverse head slot, on which are centrally mounted a pair of secondary sheets of the same material, with each secondary sheet of reduced width and extending from the head slot to an opposing shorter side of the main sheet, each of the secondary sheets being secured to the main sheet to define a series of parallel expansible sleeves, with an inflatable tube selectively disposable in each sleeve to form, of each secondary sheet and the main sheet, an abutting mattress section, the sleeves being closed off by a transverse zipper. Foam rubber tubes may be substituted for the inflatable tubes. In a modified form the pockets in each mattress section may communicate at alternate ends, for inflation of the mattress section as a single unit, without tube inserts.