On today’s article I will show you a Life Raft inflation video.
What is a Life Raft?
Its a safety device that is capable of sustaining the lives of people in distress from when its time to abandon the ship until help arrives.
Life Raft equipment list:
- Rescue quoits with minimum 30 metre lines
- Non folding knife with a buoyant handle
- 2 sponges
- 2 buoyant paddles
- 3 tin openers
- 2 sea anchors
- 1 pair of scissors
- 1 first aid waterproof kit
- 1 whistle
- 1 waterproof torch for communicating morse code with 1 spare set of batteries and bulb
- 1 signalling mirror/heliograph
- 1 radar reflector
- 1 life saving signals waterproof card
- 1 fishing tackle
- Food ration totaling not less than 10000 kJ for each person
- Water ration- 1.5 litres of fresh water for each person
- One rust proof graduated drinking vessel
- Anti sea sickness medicine sufficient for at least 48 hours and one seasickness bag for each person
- Instructions on how to survive (Survival booklet)
- Instructions on immediate action
- TPA sufficient for 10% of the number of persons
- 6 Hand Flares
- 4 Rocket Parachute Flares
- 2 Buoyant Smoke Signals
The video was recorded at ENIDH and the information was taken from aife.pt
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