Patent ID: 7442151

Claim:
A device for restraining a user while swimming in a body of water, the device comprising: a length adjustable post having a top end and a bottom end; a tie portion coupled to a top end portion of the post; a tether assembly having a first end and second end with the first end bring coupled to the tie portion and the second end being coupled to a restraining belt wherein the belt is adapted to be positioned around a user; an anchor assembly coupled to a medial portion of the length adjustable post, the anchor assembly includes: an anchoring collar freely engaged to slide along the medial portion of the length adjustable post; a damper having one end coupled to said anchoring collar and an opposite end coupled to one end of an anchor cord wherein an opposite end of said anchor cord is adapted to be anchored; and a base assembly coupled to the bottom end of the length adjustable post via a swiveling mechanism, the base assembly having a top portion and a bottom portion, the bottom portion being adapted to be stably positioned on an underwater floor such that when the post is positioned vertically and partially submerged underwater with the bottom end being pivotally supported on the base assembly and the anchor cord is anchored down, as the user supplies a variable force to the length adjustable post, the anchoring collar supplies a counteracting tensile force to the post and the tether assembly supplies the variable force to the post exerted by the user.