All terrain: Since 2002, the Hippocampe wheelchair offers individuals with disabilities accessibility to difficult terrains, impossible in a standard wheelchair: beach, sand, swimming area, hiking trails, snow, mountain. Sturdy and reliable, it has undergone stringent safety and resistance testing.
On your own or accompanied: Towed, pushed or self-propelled, the Hippocampe chair offers autonomy to its user, a third party can assist the more heavily handicapped with its push bar or traction kit.
Comfortable: The seat is composed of a thick and hydrophobic foam that does not absorb water and dries quickly. The blue and pink sheathed tubes are comfortable to the touch and do not heat up in the sun.
Revolutionary: The Hippocampe all-terrain beach chair is recognized all around the world. Its first goal is to make the beach and water-related activities accessible. It allows users to enter in water and it floats on its own while its user swims. Today it equips more than 200 beaches in France and abroad. If you want, you can use low pressure balloon wheels at the beach (as an option).
Design and adaptable: Its youthful look and modern silhouette make it your ideal companion. The Hippocampe wheelchair has received numerous awards for its design. It is just at usable on the beach as on the snow, and can be transformed into a ski chair thanks to its front and rear ski kits (as an option).
Lightweight, collapsible, and easily transportable: Its small size, fold-down backrest, removable push bar and wheels (in less than a minute) and its weight of 17 kg (37.5 lb.) make it easily transportable and convenient to store in your home or in its transport bag (as an option).
Parking Brakes
Pivoting and stainless,they immobilize the wheelchair for facilitating transfers. Located under the seat,they are easy to set.
Armrests
Covered by comfortable and hydrophobic foam. Swiveling and retractable, they enable to make easier transfers in/out of the Hippocampe chair.
Headrest
Covered by water-repellent and comfortable foam, the headrest is compatible with the user’s size and position. Possible rotation.
Ajustable backrest
Allows adjusting the backrest height depending on the needs and the disability of the user. Very helpful option for associations, communities.
Stabilo seat
Stabilo is a seat of stable positionning with the capability to be easily shaped in any desired form and create to maintain it.
Safety nets
Adapt between the seat and the armrests or the footrest: protect hands and feet.
Waist belt
Enables to optimize the user’s support and body posture into the seat and, in this way to avoid the body from sliding forward.
Harness
Enables to optimize the user's support and body posture into the seat.
Rear ski kit
Interchangeable with the rear wheels. Build-up with the front ski kit, the wheelchair is transformed into a sliding wheelchair on the snow.
Front ski kit
Clipped under the wheelchair’s front wheel, it facilitates your walks on the snow, adapts to the relief and prevents snow pack.
Balloon wheels
Can replace double wheels, they are interchangeable with standard all-terrain wheels. They facilitate the chair’s thrust over fine sandy beach.
Transport bag and backrest bag
Transport bag enables to carry the disassembled Hippocampe wheelchair, to store it, to put it away, or even to protect it. With the backrest bag, you can bring all your swimming equipment or personal items with you wherever you go, during your walks, bathing.
Product composition
Made in France, the beach and all terrain Hippocampe wheelchair is composed of stainless materials.
The tube frame is made of treated seawater aluminum and is covered by a comfortable colored cladding which avoids sun and cold burns.
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Assembly video
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