Caleb Carr was a volunteer firefighter and on a path to medical school when his focus switched to solving the problem that led to a friend’s death during a search-and-rescue training mission., a quickly growing startup that designs and produces devices to stabilize loads hoisted by helicopters and cranes.
The impetus for starting Vita Inclinata was the death of a friend of Carr’s during a rescue training mission in Oregon in 2009. The friend, Carr’s mentor, was in active cardiac arrest and the basket a helicopter was trying to lower to the ground began swinging and got caught in the trees. that went viral when the basket under a helicopter that was rescuing an injured hiker in Arizona started spinning uncontrollably.