Life jacket whistle

[cyrilslugg]

After reading an earlier post about checking lifejackets, I decided to do as suggested and manually inflated mine. The good news is that they stayed up for over 24hrs. The bad is that on 2 of them (RAIDER), the whistle was attached to a short piece of webbing, looped at each end, but the webbing itself was not attached to anything. Consequently, if used in anger the whistles would have immediately floated off from from the poor old MOB!
Now, I know creeping senility gets the better of me sometimes, but aren't the whistles supposed to be connected the the lifejacket? If so, what should be threaded thru the webbing loops?
The remaining 2 had the whistle cord stitched into the straps.

 

[Gin]

Usually just a small diameter length of cord.

However, have you ever tried getting a piercing tone which will carry any distance with the whistles which are provided with most lifejackets? You are unlikely to hear them from more than a short distance away even in modest winds/seas.

I've replaced all of mine with two types on an experimental basis.
1 a 'pealess' type a Fox Pearl
2 a 'pea type' Acme Thunderer (aka a referees whistle)

Each of these give a very loud whistle - they have a small hole to attach the cord too and each only cost about £3

 

[cyrilslugg]

That's a really good point. As I'm going to have to secure the loose whistles onto the jackets, I'll take up your idea and get some decent ones while I'm at it.
Thanks!

 

[VicS]

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I'll take up your idea and get some decent ones while I'm at it

[/ QUOTE ] Make sure the "pea" is made of something waterproof! The pea in SWMBO's teacher's whistle is made of cork.