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Duck Boats

Discussion in 'News & Current Events' started by Salty, Jul 20, 2018.

  1. Reynolds

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    Yep, "reserve buoyancy" is the correct term. A boat without "positive buoyancy" is an anchor.
     
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    The nine were from Indy--they were Jesus only. They have collected about a million for funerals.
     
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    Me too. Its a shame that in many cases memories conveniently edit and snip. I used to do a lot of off shore diving. We would be 60+ miles out, waiting out storms so we could dive, and no one even knew where life jackets were on the boats much,less have them on. From what I have seen, wearing life jackets on commercial boats is not very common.
     
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    I agree. I have never seen life jackets being worn as a general practice on commercial vessels However, having been a passenger on a ferry numerous times, the location of life jackets was always announced shortly after casting off.

    The fact that none of the passengers on this duck-boat had a life jacket on, leads me to believe that the command was either not issued or not issued in a timely manner. It seems to me, under these weather conditions, common sense would dictate that the wise thing to do would be to issue the command that life jackets should be put on.
     
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    As explained by a lawyer who has been involved in DUKW lawsuits, one of the main problems is that most of them have had canopies installed, and if they sink they trap the people under them and they are caught under it and this is made worse if the occupants are wearing life preservers as the flotation devices cause the people to pop to the top where they are then trapped and it is harder to swim free.
     
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