#life saving equipments

[diptifs]

Ensuring Safety at Sea: The Role of Life-Saving Appliances

Safety at sea is a paramount concern for the maritime industry, and the use of proper life saving appliances plays a crucial role in ensuring the well-being and survival of individuals onboard ships. In this blog, we will explore the significance and functionality of various life-saving appliances that are essential for safeguarding lives during emergencies at sea.

1. Lifeboats: Lifeboats are perhaps the most well-known life-saving appliance on ships. These sturdy vessels are designed to carry a specific number of people and are equipped with oars, paddles, or engines for mobility. Lifeboats provide a means of evacuation for passengers and crew members during emergencies, allowing them to reach safety away from the distressed ship.

2. Life Rafts: Life rafts are inflatable devices capable of accommodating several individuals. They are easily deployable and designed to provide buoyancy and shelter until rescue arrives. Life rafts come equipped with survival kits containing essential supplies like water, food rations, and signaling equipment, ensuring the occupants can sustain themselves until help arrives.

3. Lifebuoys: Lifebuoys, also known as life rings or life buoys, are floating devices designed to aid in the rescue of individuals who have fallen overboard. They provide buoyancy and visibility, making it easier for rescuers to locate and retrieve the person in distress. Lifebuoys are often equipped with reflective tape, grab lines, and lights, enhancing their effectiveness during nighttime or low visibility conditions.

4. Lifejackets: Lifejackets are personal flotation devices worn by individuals to keep them afloat in case of accidental immersion in water. They are designed to provide buoyancy and ensure that the wearer's head remains above water. Lifejackets are mandatory for all passengers and crew members on board, and they must be easily accessible and properly maintained to ensure their effectiveness.

5. Immersion Suits: Immersion suits, also known as survival suits, are designed to protect individuals from hypothermia in cold water. These suits are made from waterproof materials and provide insulation against the freezing temperatures of the sea. They are equipped with features such as reflective patches and additional flotation aids, enhancing survivability in extreme conditions.

6. Line-Throwing Devices: Line-throwing devices are essential tools for establishing a connection between a distressed vessel and a rescue team. These devices use compressed air or other mechanisms to launch a lightweight line towards the affected vessel. The line enables the crew or passengers to secure themselves and initiate rescue operations.

7. Pyrotechnics: Pyrotechnic devices, such as parachute flares, hand flares, and smoke signals, are crucial visual aids for signaling distress and attracting attention during emergencies. Parachute flares provide high-altitude illumination, hand flares emit a bright light for short-range signaling, and smoke signals produce dense smoke to indicate the position of the distressed vessel.

8. Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons (EPIRBs): EPIRBs are electronic devices that transmit distress signals via satellite to alert search and rescue authorities about a ship's emergency situation. These compact and portable devices are activated manually or automatically when submerged in water. EPIRBs greatly assist in the rapid and accurate location of distressed vessels, expediting rescue efforts.

Conclusion: The use of appropriate life-saving appliances is essential for ensuring safety at sea. These appliances, including lifeboats, life rafts, lifebuoys, lifejackets, immersion suits, line-throwing devices, pyrotechnics, and EPIRBs, are designed to provide critical support during emergencies, aiding in the evacuation, rescue, and survival of individuals onboard ships. It is imperative for ship operators and crew members to adhere to international regulations and maintain these life-saving appliances in excellent condition to protect lives and ensure a safe maritime environment.

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[can-of-pringles]

I should not have to pay hundreds of dollars for a bad batch of sites

[not-equippedforthis]

painted my nails and i did magnus archives colours by accident how bad is this brainrot guys

[uncanny-tranny]

Apologetics for transphobia is just transphobia. Transphobia is just as dangerous, even if it's "well they don't want you dead, they want [x, y, z]." Transphobia doesn't have to end in somebody's death in order for it to be real, dangerous, and worth discussing (not to mention that "non-lethal" transphobia is still very much lethal).

I understand why people want to categorize transphobia into "real and dangerous" and "not real (and not really dangerous)," but that isn't going to save us. Transphobia is transphobia. Transphobes often do not want to ~💐save trans people💐~ with kind words and affirmation. They want us eradicated - gone.

[apricotstop]

everything in my house is broken 💔 (first car accident then fridge broke and we had none fridge for like 3 weeks and now the AC is broken and it’s 93% humidity where I live + 80°F/27°C inside everything is so hot and sticky to the point where breathing is hard)

also the new fridge hasn’t been able to make any ice and my cat doesn’t understand that the vents won’t blow cold air so she keeps laying next to them thinking it’ll eventually get cold 😭

[lilysundragon]

It's impossible to put into words how completely and utterly horrified I was when I learned that you can't change the note type for all of april fools. We have to do the first day of the Kohaku-Mika tour with the Bkubu notes equipped may they have mercy on our souls

[op3ra]

medic

[fridayyy-13th]

y'all i'm like. so tired and overwhelmed right now. dare i even say sad.

[possum-adjacent]

I HATE BEING AT THIRD LEVEL I WANNA GIVE EVERYBODY COOL OUTFITS AND EQUIPMENT ALL I HAVE IS A RLLY UGLY HELMET AND STEALTH DISADVANTAGE ARMOR AND GOBLIN WEAPONS THAT DONT FIT ANYBODYS VIBE. AAAAAAAAAAAAA

[aria0fgold]

Well that was... unsettling...

[that-cheer-up-anon]

Why does giving yourself a Brazilian wax w a hurt tailbone have to be like that?

[giantkillerjack]

"Oh, Jack. You silly boi. You know that help at the top of the stairs is no help at all."

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Art piece i may delete later about my parents offering money to me and my sisters to pay for either grad school (a thing I don't want and can't do with my disability) or my wedding (also a thing I don't need/want), but not for anything that would actually help me escape poverty and find stable housing and income.

Like, I recognize the privilege of being able to complain that my parents have offered me a bunch of money but in the wrong way.

But also if that money is on top of a flight of stairs that I can't climb (but my sisters can), then I haven't really been offered money, so much as I have watched money I need be placed somewhere I can't reach it. Which tbh feels worse than if it was never mentioned to me in the first place.

I was gonna send this art to them and i wrote this big long message to go with it, but then I decided to wait until my therapy session on Tuesday to talk it thru with her first, since I've literally never regretted doing that.

Besides, both of my parents are lawyers and right now they're providing me and my friends with a lot of free legal advice about this property we're trying to buy together, so I don't want to rock the boat currently.

I just wish I knew if I had access to that money as a poor person in need of stable housing and quality disability care, and I wish my parents weren't world-class hLepers who have a long and triggering history of engaging me in rigorous debate about the kind of help I should be allowed to receive from them as a disabled person.

Nothing like having to provide an argument that would hold up in court every time I'm sick and need help! Love that! Love that I can't even talk about money with them now without having invasive thoughts about it for days to come due to past incidences in which this repeated behavior of theirs literally endangered my life!!

Not like I need that mental capacity for working on the largest and most exciting opportunity of my life that also happens to line up with my hopes and dreams for the future!! It's fine!! What do I even need mental capacity for anyway?????

This wouldn't even be the first time this little Distrust Fund has caused problems for my relationship with my parents. They are very opposed to that money being used to help my disability and it has caused PROBLEMS for us that we have never quite recovered from.

It's just difficult to be reminded that although our relationship has gotten better (mostly thanks to me setting boundaries), that doesn't mean they now actually believe what I need for my disability when I tell them.

They really do love me, and they have only ever acted with the best of intentions . But good intentions cease to matter when the impact is harmful and repeated. And they have proven to be repeatedly incapable of providing non-ableist support for me again and again and again. They've even genuinely tried to learn; and sometimes it really seems like my mom has made progress with her therapist (who is disabled), but who knows when I can so jarringly be reminded of how quickly that toxic ableist thinking can show its ugly face.

It's so clear to me and they don't even know it's there.

It feels like I'm in a horror movie when I try to get them to understand their own ableism, and that is a good good sign that I may want to consider an approach that minimizes my mental damage instead. Even if it means I don't get their stupid, deeply-conditional-and-yet-the-conditions-are-SO-vague-and-they-won't-admit-it money.

[gorgynei]

morgott down 💪 i still wish his fight was longer. give this guy a full bar for phase one and a cutscene transition for phase two and itd be perfect

[renewgoo]

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[cat-chronic-but-iconic]

I just learned that my schools disability center will give you a custom dog tag for a service dog. Marking it as a registered through the school accommodation.

This is due to a fake being brought into a class and injuring a real service dog.

To many I know that the ‘registration’ is a red flag. But since there’s a good deal of teams at my school (5 that I know of and we’re a smaller university) the chances of having a class with a Service Dog is pretty high. And since it did end poorly. I think it’s a good idea. Especially since the DRC team is really good abut accommodations. 

[lord-squiggletits]

Also idk if I can elaborate on this in beautiful enough detail, but I think that the Autobots going through unreasonable amounts of effort to save other people even at great personal cost to themselves is literally something good about them, and if you try to criticize that as a way the Autobots are “bad” then I really don’t get you.