On the raft survival skills
Immediately behind the sea anchor.
Don’t try to use the raft sail, unless saw the coast, or in an unfriendly
In the waters.
Remember, the most successful rescue is to abandon ship or abandon machine within 7 days.
Within 7 days, the raft sail is not far away.
Lookout.
At any time to ensure that at least a lookout, lookout for waiting to land, passing ship or plane, debris, seaweed, fish, birds, and check whether there is life raft wear or leak.
Class at least once in every 2 hours.
Travel.
No matter what you do, the raft will be mobile, mobile route depends on the wind, current, and how you use OARS, steering, anchor and sail.
If the current flow in your destination, and the wind is not, so should be put down the sea anchor.
Curled up in a life raft, to minimize the wind resistance.
In offshore waters, water one day moving distance is rarely more than 6 ~ 8 miles (9.7 ~ 12.9).
Liferaft not keel, and so the raft could not haul up, but can be run with the wind.
More than life
Raft (with the exception of 20 life raft) can be successfully moving in the direction of the deviation direction of 10 °.
But don’t easily
On the raft, unless see land nearby.
If the wind is blowing toward your destination, then wants enough life raft, sit up straight, put sea anchor, raised the sail, a paddle when the rudder.
In more than life raft (in addition to 20 life raft), should be to erect the sail in the raft front, use a paddle for masts and crossbar.
If there is no conventional sails available, can use waterproof cloth or a thick two of parachute cloth to make a sail.
If there are no mast on the raft jack and mast, can be firmly tied to the mast seat at the front of the raft
Things on the bottom of the mast on the mat, to prevent wear or pierced the raft.
Can use the shoes to do mast step, under the seat insert the front of a shoe, shoe heel part when the mast step.
Along both sides of the fixed up not to sail, to by hand grasp at both ends of the rope, in this way, all of a sudden battered by heavy rain or strong wind won’t torn sails, broken mast, or overthrow the raft.
Be careful not to let life raft.
In bad weather, must bow down in the sea anchor, all
People all want to lower the body, with weight to live life raft, especially against the side of the wind and waves.
Don’t sit on the edge of the raft, don’t stand up, before didn’t warn the others, don’t have any sudden movement.
The line is not to be fixed on their hands or on the raft, the big fish may be out of the raft.
In a rough sea, the first life raft of second life raft of bow and stern in a
Up, the sea anchor in the second raft stern put into the sea.
To connect two life raft of cord length is about 25 feet (7.6 meters) long, can adjust the length of the rope according to the surface condition.
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Sea anchor need not when, want to tie on the raft.
If the life raft to turn over, sea anchor can immediately grabbed the raft.
Can use the raft righting the handle will be at the bottom of the raft to the centralizer (in addition to 20 life raft).
Try to adjust
You and the direction of the raft, you are in the position of the wind and the raft, seize the centralizer handle, will the raft He lifted the other end, and turn over the past (FIG. 16-3).
The pros and cons of 20 life raft is the same, so there is no righting problem.
Raft after righting, if there are several people in the water, need more than one pin raft (4 to 7), at the end of the others one by one from the other end of the climb, can seize forcibly dragged himself on the seat to go to, if there is a ladder, can go up the ladder.
If there is no other help, raft on the best position from the tail.
If there is wind, on a raft when facing the wind.
20 life raft is equipped with a special inflatable raft platform.
On single raft, want to climb up on the narrow side of the, as far as possible to keep the body level and slip in.
Land sight lookout must be carefully on the land.
In the sunny sky, if most clouds are in the mobile, which has a static accumulation is cloud, suggests that the cloud may have under the land.
Accumulation is often cloud hovering over the land or slightly off the land, the land underground wind position.
In the tropics, the shallow reef water surface or coral reefs reflected sunlight can often make the sky blue.
In the polar regions, if has the light color image in the clouds, it is likely under ice or snow accumulation of land.
The image and open water in the clouds of dark grey image difference is very big.
Deepwater appears dark green or blue, if the water color lighter, then the water is shallow, which means that the land may be nearby.
The fog, when it rains, or in the evening, you can detect the land through the smells and sounds.
The sea
Mangrove swamps and silt ground of musty and wood burning scent can spread to far away.
Waves beat on the shore, great sound on the far didn’t see the snarl of the waves can be heard it before.
Coming from a direction continuously seabirds, illustrate the potential is not far off the land they inhabit.
In the open sea, near the land will usually find more birds.
The birds fly to the direction and at dawn
They fly at dusk directions may be the direction of the land.
During the day, the birds foraging for food everywhere, they fly line direction there is no special meaning.
In the tropics, may produce a mirage phenomenon, especially at noon.
Be careful not to will it projects
Mirage as land.
As long as slightly adjust the height of the wait-and-see, mirage phenomenon disappears, or its appearance and height can be changed.
You can also according to the wave forms of exercise to detect land, wave is reflected back when closer to land.
With wave, mark “X” on the drawing surface can produce mild because of the interaction between the waves, in parallel to the direction of the whirlpool of the water, you’ll be able to reach land.
If you are swimming to shore —
Low wear shoes, and at least a layer of clothes.
With the method of side stroke and breaststroke, to conserve our energy.
If the wave is not big, can ride a wave on a smaller, swimming along with it, and in the wave weakening fast To disappear into the water.
If the waves are high, so want to be in between two surge waves to the shore to swim to shore.
If the sea
The direction of the waves coming toward you, should be in the face of it into the water, such as it passed, continue to the next trough swam to the shore.
If you are a big wave back into the water, trying to leave the water, swam to the surface of the water, and then continue to swim to the shore in accordance with the above method.
If the place you ashore there are a lot of rock, find the waves can brush past rocks, avoid spray 4 splash.
Slowly swam to rocks, because you need physical climbing rocks and hold on.
After choose good landing site, want to choose a big wave, after it broke into a little bit small waves, behind breaking waves.
Should face toward the shore, make the body posture, foot forward, lower than the head of 2 ~ 3 feet (0.6 ~ 0.9 meters), so that when you go up or hit the rock in the water or reef, foot can absorb part of the impact, so as to slow down the whole body by the collision.
If behind the wave hasn’t been able to reach the shore, then by hand and hands only swim to the shore.
The next wave came, the body posture, foot forward.
You repeat the steps until the shore.
Low in full of the lee side of seaweed, the water of the sea will be much more calm, can take advantage of this when ashore, but don’t want to through the seaweed, it swam slowly, from seaweed, paddling down to catch the seaweed.
While crossing the reef rocks, practices like you in the rocky shore of the sea.
Together the feet, knees peg-leg, relax the body posture, slow down the impact of the hit a coral reef.
If it is a life raft ashore —
Low single life raft ashore in most cases there is no danger, but if the lapping of waves is too high there will be
The danger.
Don’t try so hard.
Location should be carefully selected.
When the sun is very low, and is located in front of you, don’t try to washed up in this situation.
As far as possible in the leeward islands plane landed.
Mindful of surf gap, the gap direction.
To avoid the coral reefs and rock walls.
In freshwater river estuary don’t have a coral reef.
Avoid open rapids or tidal wave, they rushed to the sea, may be farther offshore.
You can send signals to the coast, or observe all around, looking for a sloping beach, the waves there will be a little bit small.
If you have to through the waves to reach the shore, should let go of the mast, put on your clothes and shoes, avoid being
The rock cut.
To adjust life vest, aerobic.
Put down the sea anchor in the stern, will drag anchor rope in the longest.
The oar constantly adjust the position of the sea anchor make rope straight, this can make life raft has been in the direction of the sea shore, and the ability to block the waves from the stern overturned raft.
There are waves came back from the shore, can life raft through the waves with the help of the OARS.
The movement may not have rule of ocean waves, speed may change at any time, so according to actual circumstances
Adjustment measures.
Through the spray is the best way to half of them sitting on the side of the raft, sitting on the other side, the other sit face to face.
When waves rushed over, people rowing until half through, and then the other one is answering the rowed to shore, until another big waves.
Against the strong wind waves, must as far as possible let life raft across the top with the quickest speed, avoid rescue Lateral or waves left behind on a raft.
If possible, try to avoid in the big waves break up with it.
If the wave intensity is moderate, and there is no wind, so had better not too speed when the raft on the waves
Fast, if too fast, after the waves it will suddenly fall.
If the life raft wipeout, matters take hold of the raft.
When close to the shore would life raft washed up a bigger wave, then push pull forward towards the shore, as far as possible with the waves, the farther, the better.
Until the raft touch the ground to jump down a life raft, then came ashore on a raft.
If have a choice, had better not go ashore at night.
If you have reason to believe that the shore, people live in the distance with the shore, and send the signal, waiting for the residents take you ashore.
If there are any sea ice, can only choose those big, smooth ice floe ashore.
To steer clear of ice, it
They may overturn.
To avoid small ice or seemingly obvious in the division of the ice.
With paddles or by hand to make the edge of the raft and ice to keep a certain distance, to avoid friction raft and ice.
Pull the raft to the ice, away from the edge of the ice.
Keep the life raft in gas state, can use at any time.
Any ice may suddenly cracked.
