Hi all, Sorry for cross-mailing :-(! This is no fun news, but for once Swedish Radio har made a shocking discovery: Almost all life buoys sink! To begin with one make (Greek) was tested and theirs sank (the life buoy absorbs water and being fairly rustic, sinks, if having been exposed to rain recently, or when immersed in water). So there is a design flaw, somehow. Don't know the details, yet, sorry! Today life buoys of eight makes have proved to sink, representing (almost) all makers world wide! Don't know how fast they sink, but most probable is that the life buoys you see on the ferries where you live are a bad joke! Most life buoys on Scandinavian ferries have been replaced, with others, but the question is, are any any good?! That they have a stamp, that they have been approved by the authority that approves such things have proved just a sticker, an approved one sinks just as well as an unapproved! *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Dec 08 2009 - 15:57:21 PST
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