'Deathboats', not lifeboats

摘要

In late April we published a blog under this heading on our website www.bairdmaritime.com. It was written by Andrew Guest for BIMCO. Lifeboats and their many deficiencies are an old obsession of mine. It is good to see someone like Mr Guest and my many friends at the Nautical Institute who are similarly obsessed. To me it is tragically illogical that such an important item of "safety" equipment as a lifeboat can be so dangerous to those practicing it deployment. There must be a better way of overcoming this major fatal problem.