(a) The Silver Lifesaving Medal is 99 percent pure silver and consists of a pendant suspended by a swivel from the head of an eagle attached to a silk grogram ribbon 1 and \3/8\ths inches in width, composed of a \3/16\ths of an inch blue stripe, a \1/32\d of an inch white stripe, a \15/16\ths of an inch silver gray stripe, a \1/32\d of an inch white stripe, and a \3/32\ds of an inch blue stripe. The pendant is 1 and \7/16\ths inches in diameter and \3/32\ds of an inch in thickness. On the obverse side of the pendant there appears the figure of a woman hovering over a man struggling in heavy sea and extending to him one end of a long scarf; the whole is encircled by the words: ``United States of America'', in the upper half, and ``Act of Congress, August 4, 1949'', in the lower half. On the reverse there appears a laurel wreath encircled by the words: ``In testimony of heroic deeds in saving life from the perils of the water.''
(b) Engraving: Before presentation, the recipient's name shall be inscribed inside the laurel wreath, on the reverse of the medal.