0 a type of boat that is carried on a large ship and is used in emergencies, for example when the ship is sinking, to take people to safety --
Many of the vessels already carry a lifeboat or life raft, which is highly commendable, but they should be required to be fitted with a hydrostatic unit.
It will also require that life rafts should have hydrostatic release units fitted, so that the life raft will inflate automatically and float free if the vessel sinks.
The list of safety items of which the inspectors are in possession excludes the one thing that is really important and really required; that is, a life raft.
Quite unexpectedly and contrary to forecasts, he then began to run up massive surpluses in the public finances, which he now clings to like a life raft.
We are certainly not asking for it to be given an unsinkable life raft or some comfortable arrangement to enable it to get by with overmanning and lazy ways.
There may well be no opportunity free a life raft if it has been stored on the deck or on top of the wheelhouse.
If the hydrostatic unit is used, it is guaranteed that the life raft will come to the surface.
The criticism may originate from the possible need to carry a life raft in the luggage area.
