A date for your diaries - liferaft inflation demo

[Stingo]

I missed the last one and the feedback from forumites that made it was good.

<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.messengermarine.co.uk/openday.htm>Liferaft and flare</A> demonstration.



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[BrendanS]

Haven't been to a liferaft demo, but the flare demo I attended last year was an eye opener.

Many of the women could not set off the hand flares that required a good thump, though it was pointed out that adrenaline in a real life situation would give them the necessary incentive, and that something solid to thump on also helped - head of skipper that got them into the situation?

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[Dominic]

A Spanish Flare

One wouldn´t expect the Spanish to have this better,

But

All their flares, smokes, rockets etc work on a "Ring on a String on a Pin"

i.e. put finger in ring and pull string which pulls pin.

Brit ones use weird and strange firing mechanisms by comparison.

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[StephenSails]

Re: A Spanish Flare

These kinds of flares are less reliable I was told when I used to work for Messenger Marine.

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