The Retriever did deploy automatically, however it does not deploy the way I would like it too. That is mainly because it was not designed to. The video will show you why the Retriever is the cheapest insurance you can buy, and how it would have saved me close to $2,000 if I had one when my ski sank in Lake Ontario. The Retriever will be sold as it was designed, a manual deploying device. There are more products coming in the future. One of which requires no manual deploying, however it is more expensive. Thank you all for you patience, I will continue to push to get this video completed.