Life Rafts Explained! (SOLAS – liferaft)

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Part 2 of this video is below:

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Learn how life rafts work! How are life rafts designed? What equipment do they contain? This video will explain some of these points and more!

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Introduction
Going for a sail? Then you need to know where the life rafts and life boats are! This video focuses on life rafts. We will look at:

- How life rafts work.
- What equipment a life raft has.
- What legislation governs life rafts (SOLAS).
- And a lot more!

Enjoy!

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[savree-d]

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[quillmaurer]

Interesting point about the inside color - I see that as not just comfort, but helpful for keeping the occupants' eyes functional. I once had a math exam on neon pink paper, staring at that for an hour caused pretty severe eye strain and I developed an eye twitch afterward, took a couple days to go away. Teacher realized that probably hadn't been a good idea. Looking at really bright colors briefly is fine, but too long can become problematic. As bad as it was for an hour, it would be far worse seeing nothing but an uncomfortably bright color for multiple days - that combined with all the other stresses of trying to survive in a life raft, I could see it driving someone to madness.

[jeffglass]

Love it when collaborations like this shine a light on channels I hadn’t discovered before. Very interesting video, and looking forward to exploring your back catalog. Cheers!

[shakyvideos]

Casual Nav sent me here. May the algorithm gods shine on this channel.

Nice collaboration btw.

[jackharper]

3:11 I did many liferaft drills in wave pools with artificial rain and wind. And even it was only a training drill It took me a great amount of stremgh to board the raft.

[John-Ginger]

IDK why but while I hope I am never in a position that I have to use one of these I do find it comfortably reassuring that if someone else is in trouble at sea they have nifty designs like this.

[stephenbritton]

The floor can be manually inflated (by lung power). The floor should be inflated in cold weather and left uninflated in warm weather. In cold, you want the insulation. In warm, you want the relative coolness of the water against the underside of the floor to help cool the inside. Also, if in a situation where day/night temps are extremely different, you may need to manually add air to the main bladders originally filled with CO2 at night, just to have the pop-off valves blow it back off in the heat of the day.

[savree-d]

Link to the Casual Navigation 'Why Don't Ships Have Enough Lifeboats?' video is below. If you like learning about maritime topics, it's a great channel.

[gergokerekes]

Casual got me over. Youtube should have recommended you sooner to me.
now here I go binging till morning.

[Jaeverable]

Hi saVRee. Casual Navigation fan here, just discovered your channel. I've binged 5-6 videoes in a row just now, I'm very impressed by your talent for explaining. I'm a deck officer cadet in the merchant navy, and never really bothered what's going on in the engine ;) But now I've got some idea thanks to your engine and steering gear walkthroughs. Fantastic job! I am looking very much forward to more ship videoes, maybe something Inert gas plants on tankers and loading/discharging operations etc.? Also marine boilers, ballast water treatment systems could be very nice. Thanks

[gworfish]

Hey, I actually discovered your channel accidentally yesterday, but I'm here today because of the Casual Navigation link. I've followed them for ages so a thumbs up from them means I know I'll find a lot of good content here. Thanks mate. 👍

[davewright]

I've been struggling badly lately with depression and anxiety and your videos not just entertaining but so helpful in so many ways thank you so much ☺ ♥

[davidbarten]

Great info here, How many of you who watched this anticipate needing to be reminded your boat has sunk, which is why you are in a life raft...

[pitanguirj]

I am an offshore interpreter and this was very useful. cheer.

[vaakdemandante]

The raft should also have a cat-eye radar mirrors somewhere at the top, so they can be seen in spectrum other than visible wavelength. Some flexible / surface coated PV panels for basic electricity would be nice too.

Personally I prefer the hexagonal shape as it's optimal in terms of volume vs surface area and can be combined more tightly when in groups.

BTW it's a great introductory video, one never knows when this knowledge may come in handy.

[yanshuoli]

chilling on water with tube water and reading light... damn this is a yatch all by itself <3

[oboealto]

Brilliant video, thank you so much. Some questions which were left answered (at least for me):
1. can you close the rainwater tube if necessary?
2. is there a container for rainwater inside? (I'm aware of the sponges, but those cannot store liquids as well as containers)
3. are the lights not LED? their battery consumption should be close to zero and may be used for comfort all night long, no?
4. are the top lights flashing like those on an airplane? what color are they?

[natureboyy]

Came here from Casual Navigation, thanks for the explaining video!

[mokacy]

“Which to me is slightly offensive” 🤣🤣 brilliant. Your videos are the best out there for my orals love this channel

[extrastuff]

So if I go back to the casual navigation channel video now as instructed I'll then get told to come back here again... I might end up in an infinite loop. I didn't know youtube was this dangerous!

In all seriousness though, nice clear and simple overviews on both channels of some design aspects. Did know they were contained in the boxes somehow and could be inflated but didn't know much about the deployment mechanisms and how they are generally designed.