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Testing new Lifeboat Modifications; Survival skills

4/21/2023

 

Testing Lifeboats in the Artic

8/23/2017

 
PicturePhoto From The Maritime Executive Norsafe
Norsafe launched and tested Lifeboats in the Arctic in this article in The Maritime Executive to find out what it takes to meet IMO Polar Code

Lifeboat Capsize!

7/4/2016

 

Lifeboat Leaves Safe Harbor, Encounters Shark

5/27/2016

 

Video of  The International Lifeboat Race in New York Harbor 1939

2/12/2016

 

"Grueling" 24 hr Lifeboat Challenge reminiscent of ILRA's 

8/27/2015

 
Volonteers to spend 24 hrs in a liferaft in the North Sea, according to this article .


December 13th, 2014

12/13/2014

 
67 year old Ron Ingraham survive for 12 days at sea in his sailboat after being blown off course on a fishing trip around the hawaiian islands. The story was covered in all the US news outlets

Does this qualify as a story of lifeboat survival? After all, he had his entire sailboat with him, although it was dissabled in its ability to sail due to some mast damage, he did still have a mast and sails, and fishing gear. He said he ran out of water and had to "hydrate on fish".

Here is an article on Ingrahams experience in the LA times

September 22nd, 2014

9/22/2014

 
Here is a tally of all the historic reports available on accidental and intentional voyages between the Polynesian Islands titled Table of Accidental and Deliberate Voyages

Aussies and foreigners survive shipwreck in Indonesia 

8/21/2014

 
Lifeboat not large enough for number of people onboard.
Tale of survival after they swim 6 k to nearest island, which has no water, but an active volcano instead.

Aug 15 2014 article in Australian news
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/tourists-crew-emerge-with-tales-of-survival-after-lombok-boat-goes-down/story-e6frg6so-1227028579978

Titanic tale of survival

3/23/2014

 
http://www.chieftain.com/life/2335192-120/margaret-titanic-brown-lifeboat
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    A Message from Embattled Association President Smith

    Ever wonder if your Lifeboat will be ready when you need it? I do. That's why every year I have the crew bust her out of the deck chocks and take her for a spin
     (and then pray that you never have to use it in real life).

    All the best,
    Eric Wartenweiler Smith

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