Storm Rescue: Why MONSTER Waves Can't Sink the Safest LIFEBOATS During Worst Storms 

In regards to Pilot Boats, some are equipped and used for SAR missions as well! The term Lifeboat covers both vessels used for SAR (such as the job performed by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and similar Rescue Services around the world), and the group of vessels onboard ships, offshore installations, and on a lot of aircraft. Sure, I get that it can seem confusing, but you have to remember that this terminology goes back to an era where there really wasn't any significant difference between the boats used as lifeboats on ships or from the coast for rescuing people from ships wrecked on the coast. The Stations from where these coastal SAR vessels launch are also still called Lifeboat Stations - and I honestly think that's common practice in most countries, as there's a lot of tradition connected to this naming convention. Of course you're right that it's not all Pilot Boats that can double as a SAR vessel, but it's a trend that is becoming more and more common, and as Pilot Boats are getting increasingly more expensive and of course seaworthy, anyways it makes a lot of sense that they can be used for both - especially in areas where rough seas are fairly common!

@@gorillaguerillaDK Yes I know that in the UK SAR boats are called lifeboats to. But I have never heard of planes with lifeboats. Some of them might have inflatable life rafts, but that is not a boat. Where have you seen pilot boats with SAR duties? And SAR boats/ships has never looked like a lifeboat on a ship.

As far as I know: Rescue boats are used for saving people who are on the sea and bringing them to the boat. That's why many of them aren't enclosed. Life boats are used for abandoning the ship when the ship is sinking. Some of them are enclosed, some aren't enclosed...it depends on where the ship travel. Also, some lifeboats that aren't enclosed...are used as a way of brining cruise pasengers to the ship and vice versa.

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Wtf! Why do you capitalise every word and don't use punctuation? It makes it really hard to read and understand what you're trying to say.

Sea sickness is highly cantagious and sometimes fatal

Thanks for that visual

@@sharonlevy7733 LOL

@@ericmason349 wasn't just a visual....I could smell it....A smellual

To avoid sea sickness they should be low depth submarines instead, traveling under the waves is a lot more stable, and people can enjoy any meal in peace.

The Vanguard davit launch is also pretty awesome!

If it reads like a Wikipedia page, it's probably ChatGPT. A very distinct lack of style, but full of facts.

What kind of failures are you alluding to? And which incidents? One thing that is important to remember is that mistakes made by humans or lack of training in using the equipment aren't a failure of the equipment. Occupants not knowing how to right a capsized liferaft isn't a failure of the equipment. Equipment not working because parts have been removed or are expired are not a failure of the equipment. Most cases I've heard about where equipment malfunctioned it has been due to the crew not making sure the equipment lived up to required standards and was in the required condition. Or used non-certifiied equipment to save money. On very rare occasions there have been some incidents where things went terribly wrong - such as the Penlee Lifeboat Disaster, and the RF2 Disaster at Hirtshals! Both happened December 1981!

@@gorillaguerillaDK I've spent a career leading engineering organizations in the design, manufacturing, and investigations into quality accidents. A bad design is one where the engineers design the solution around how they want the world to play out. A good design is one that takes into account the real world situation including imperfect training, flooding, fire, explosions, confusion, and panic. To design a safety solution that only works in good weather and then say "well, of course if failed, they used it in the rain" is not a valid engineering solution. While not the best example, but one that was top-of-mind, is the Deepwater Horizon explosion. Even this less-than-ideal example is full of situations where the design and expectations of the life boat/raft engineers did not line up with reality. You can find the report by googling "deepwater horizon-roi-uscg-volume-i-20110707-redacted-final" Some low energy (I'm lazy and don't want to spend a lot of time on this) quotes: 1) "The liferaft tilted approximately 90 degrees, ejecting the off-watch toolpusher from the stretcher while the other occupants tumbled within the confines of the liferaft.185 Once the liferaft hit the water, the on-watch DPO fell out of the raft and swam away. Someone then noticed the painter line was still attached to DEEPWATER HORIZON. None of the occupants of the liferaft had a knife to cut the painter line, nor could they find the knife" 2) "The lifeboat design may also be inadequate to meet the needs of an offshore drilling rig crew. It is generally recognized that the average offshore worker weighs closer to 95 kg (210 pounds) rather than the present standard of 82.5 kg (180 pounds). Thus, an approved lifeboat intended for the carriage of offshore workers could have insufficient overall seat width to permit the maximum number of persons the life boat was designed for to board." 3) "This experience showed that the actual use of a liferaft served by a launching appliance on a column stabilized MODU, during an uncontrolled well event, is particularly hazardous." 4) "The current lifeboat design and testing requirements do not adequately ensure the safe loading of a stretcher or permit adequate seating to accommodate the physical build of the average offshore worker today." 5) "The liferaft launch area had no effective barrier to shield it from the intense heat of the fire that threatened to incinerate the liferaft." 6) "After the davit’s releasing hook was attached to one of the three nearby rafts, the davit itself could not rotate outboard from the side of DEEPWATER HORIZON in order to inflate the raft. After he removed the shackle pin with a small tool, the davit finally rotated to allow the liferaft to be inflated" (note: he had to find a tool for this) 7) "it filled with black smoke and got so hot that the chief mate could not find the brake handle to release the raft" 8) "The master determined there was not enough time to manually crank the davit’s releasing hook back to the davit to deploy another liferaft." 9) "The boundaries established at the bow Liferaft Embarkation Station were inadequate to shield evacuating personnel from exposure to radiant heat emanating from under DEEPWATER HORIZON’s column stabilized hull." 10) "The inflatable liferafts on DEEPWATER HORIZON served by launching appliances did not provide adequate protection for occupants under the circumstances. The exposure to extreme heat due to the proximity of the fire to the launching area, combined with the lack of a water spray system, placed them at greater risk during the evacuation." 11) "The storage location of the knife in DEEPWATER HORIZON’s liferaft was not easily identifiable to the occupants. Had reflective tape and standard IMO symbols been used, the occupants likely could have found the knife and freed the raft from the painter line on their own." Again, a successful safety evacuation system is one that works under the real world events that occur. A system in place for a drilling platform that needs to evacuate in the case of a fire and/or explosion should be one that will operate in the event of a fire and/or explosion. My experience reading reports like this shows a pattern where the reality consistently is at odds with the design expectations.

It’s AI. It got my back up too, probably American or a thick Englishman

Great work Peter ❤

Dwi wedi deud Sori am Post "Sales" Dwin byw yn Pen Llyn (Pwllheli - Porthceiriad) and have friends on the Pwllheli crew. I recently bought two paintings whose proceeds went directly to the RNLI Despite the appologies I really don't think it should have deserved such an aggressive post.

I thought someone was trying to correct my Correcting this. So many ignorant people think England is the capital of the three other kingdoms that make up the UK No mention of Wales or Scotland at all 🤔 No more arguing with myself or A I

@Dude, I've been arguing with myself. Im such a luddite,lol

Drop some containers, ship management cargo system. Unplug some others. Increase air pressures inside before sealing some doors. Assign some doors, stairs for intake of air and exhaust vent insides. Air pressure inside is structural-bouyancy

Written and spoken I'd say, yes. That's why it's a bit choppy and sounds like a lot of it came off the RNLI and Safehaven webpages because it did.

Because in many parts of the world rescue vessels are called lifeboats, even if shore based, and yes, in some locations the best option is a hovercraft.

Geee, you are saying RLNI publishes false information regarding the numbers they report for donations?

Ex seaman of 25 years in merchant navy,stopped donating,immigrant taxi service ripped sticker out window

Agreed…

Yeah like Rohingya from Bangladesh!😡

I wonder if the reduction in donations will cost lives. Must make people proud

They are known as "Lifeboats" Dude

No,they’re immigrant transport vehicles .

UH? WE'RE DISCUSSING LIFE BOATS, I DONT SEE ANYTHING SEXUAL REGARDING THEM, Hmmm.

Keep ur smut to yourself.

Are…. You crazy?? I’m certain that you would be grateful beyond expression if you were rescued from a shipwreck by one of these vessels, instead of drowning with the knowledge that someone ate that day and skin cancer was almost cured

So vehicles used for saving lives are "little toys to have fun in"?

@@gorillaguerillaDK lmao I know… it’s such a weird, crazy statement. Internet is truly a place that encourages unthinking brain discharges

@@randyalfano5910 True, and let people expose the bizarre views that are the reason why they're sitting lonely in their moms basement ranting about SAR ships picking up asylum seekers from sinking dingies.

@@gorillaguerillaDK to be fair, I sometimes think that the internet itself was designed to do just this! Luckily for me, I’m so damn good looking that ppl ignore how weird I am irl, and pretend to like me 😂 We think alike… best wishes gorilla 🙋🏻‍♂️