Operating Lifeboats

01 Mar 2008 Resource

Captain's Column (March 2008) by Captain D A Gibson AFRIN MNI describes the experience of operating lifeboats on board ship

Seaways March 2008

The functional, seaworthy, open wooden boat has been replaced by the totally enclosed shell of brittle glass-fibre, with seakeeping qualities unsuitable for conditions beyond the most sheltered waters. Increased reliance on technology has resulted in complacency throughout the industry, and the tacit acceptance of marginally inadequate survival equipment.

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