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Freefall Lifeboats – Is there a safer way?

By On January 27, 2010

Eide Marine Tech brings us a new Freefall lifeboat design. In a press release they write:

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Schat Harding Lifeboats – World’s Largest Boats

By On January 16, 2010

. Schat-Harding Lifeboats has recently announced delivery of the world’s largest lifeboats to the world’s largest cruise ship, Royal Caribbean International’s Oasis of the Seas. The Oasis of the Seas [...]

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Schat Harding Lifeboats – Shell Perdido Incident Photo Of The Week

By On January 4, 2010

The attached photos of a Schat Harding Lifeboat came to us via the gCaptain tip Line (tips@gcaptain.com) and show extensive damage to a lifeboat. The tip came with the following [...]

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Time To Rethink SOLAS? Why a behavioral economist may have the answer.

By On October 9, 2009

What does behavioral economics have to do with lifeboat safety? Lifeboat safety has been a major topic recently with davit related incidents and injuries hitting a fever pitch in recent [...]

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Lifeboat Air Bottle Explosion – Maritime Incident Photo Of The Week

By On June 19, 2009

This story comes via our friends at the excellent blog Maritime Accident Casebook (MAC for short). Bob Couttie writes:

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Lifeboat Incident Video – Dropped From The Falls

By On June 10, 2009

This video came to use through our tip line. We don’t have details on the incident but it clearly shows the dangers of this lifesaving system.

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Norsafe Lifeboats Offshore – Photo Of The Week

By On April 10, 2009

Noresafe Lifeboats aboard AWILCO GM4000 series offshore oil rigs.

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Maersk Alabama Lifeboat FAQ

By On April 9, 2009

Over the past two days gCaptain has fielded questions from the Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Good Morning America and a number of other well known organizations, each trying to [...]

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Beach Lauch Of RNLI Rescue Vessel

By On May 27, 2008

Photo by Sean Mantey Prior to completing mission’s like rescuing self-appointed royaly the RNLI must first get its boats off the beach. The organization’s official website tells us about the [...]

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Incident Photo Of The Week – Lifeboat Bottle Explosion

By On May 8, 2008

The Marine Safety Forum gives us information on this lifeboat air bottle explosion: A gas bottle exploded in a lifeboat of a vessel during the process of charging it up [...]

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Launching Of A Free-Fall Lifeboat

By On December 30, 2007

. Here’s the arial view; . Finally, here’s how they test these boats: . For more info on the history behind these types of lifeboats visit NOVA’s “Pioneers of Survival [...]

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Lifeboat Davit Testing

By On November 18, 2007

Traditionally lifeboat davits were tested using sand bags and a crew of strong AB’s. More recently water bags began to be used making the job considerably easier… you simply place [...]

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