Refueler
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Not sure about them working in the wet, why do you need to keep them in a water tight container ?
Most of your arguments (they have always worked so why not use them, I'll accept the risk relative to the emergency) do not provide (to me) a case to keep them in preference to more modern less hazardous solutions.
Are you sticking with them because they are Better than the alternatives, or is it simply because you always have.
I was in the latter category and have changed my view for the reasons given, and I have yet to find an example where the newer technology is not better. Perhaps you will provide one ?
There are many cases where flares have been ignored, the Titanic being the most obvious where two ships ignored them. Indeed had the Titanic not used it's wireless transmissions, there would have been even more casualties.
I agree respecting the risks of devices powered by electricity, but you don't carry a single flare do you ? so why have a single electrically powered safety device ?
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Why keep them in a container - long term exposure will deteriorate the casings. Short term will not. So they will work even after a dunking.
Risk of injury against life saved - this is similar to the drag a person out of a burning house etc. - better to break an arm / leg etc. getting them out and save their life than lose them.
I'm sticking with them because I believe that they have a place in my emergency kit.
No-one as far as I see does not accept that modern developments in some areas are better - of course they are. But I am yet to be convinced that modern 'alternatives' replace flares completely. IMHO they complement or are additional to the emergency package.
Where do you get this "you don't carry a single flare do you" from ? I have a container of red's and also a set of whites ready for use.
The subject of Titanic and the 'rockets' that were used in those days. They were white and not Red. There has been debate about whether they were seen - reports say they were. They were also fired off regardless of whether another vessel was in area to see or not. IMHO Titanic is not a good example to use in this debate.
OK - lets look at later incidents .... Texaco Oklahoma, tanker that broke in half. Engineers and crew stranded on aft section with Emergency radio. They wound that handle ... sending SOS etc. for hours and nothing. Why ? They had test link still bridging the antena link stopping transmission of signal. Ships passed them ......
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/cg5/docs/boards/texoklahoma.pdf
Sobering read ....
Not sure about them working in the wet, why do you need to keep them in a water tight container ?
Most of your arguments (they have always worked so why not use them, I'll accept the risk relative to the emergency) do not provide (to me) a case to keep them in preference to more modern less hazardous solutions.
Are you sticking with them because they are Better than the alternatives, or is it simply because you always have.
I was in the latter category and have changed my view for the reasons given, and I have yet to find an example where the newer technology is not better. Perhaps you will provide one ?
There are many cases where flares have been ignored, the Titanic being the most obvious where two ships ignored them. Indeed had the Titanic not used it's wireless transmissions, there would have been even more casualties.
I agree respecting the risks of devices powered by electricity, but you don't carry a single flare do you ? so why have a single electrically powered safety device ?
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Why keep them in a container - long term exposure will deteriorate the casings. Short term will not. So they will work even after a dunking.
Risk of injury against life saved - this is similar to the drag a person out of a burning house etc. - better to break an arm / leg etc. getting them out and save their life than lose them.
I'm sticking with them because I believe that they have a place in my emergency kit.
No-one as far as I see does not accept that modern developments in some areas are better - of course they are. But I am yet to be convinced that modern 'alternatives' replace flares completely. IMHO they complement or are additional to the emergency package.
Where do you get this "you don't carry a single flare do you" from ? I have a container of red's and also a set of whites ready for use.
The subject of Titanic and the 'rockets' that were used in those days. They were white and not Red. There has been debate about whether they were seen - reports say they were. They were also fired off regardless of whether another vessel was in area to see or not. IMHO Titanic is not a good example to use in this debate.
OK - lets look at later incidents .... Texaco Oklahoma, tanker that broke in half. Engineers and crew stranded on aft section with Emergency radio. They wound that handle ... sending SOS etc. for hours and nothing. Why ? They had test link still bridging the antena link stopping transmission of signal. Ships passed them ......
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/cg5/docs/boards/texoklahoma.pdf
Sobering read ....