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This question of liferafts does come up occassionally. I cant remember did Hal and Margaret Roth have a liferaft? Lin and Larry Pardey? I know many of the prior sailors did not. I wonder if the Coast Guard or anyone like that keeps track of things like "how many boats/crew that go missing without a trace had liferafts?" I read books and tales about those that survived (not many books or tales!) but of course... how many didnt? It is said you should not enter a liferaft unless the water is above your knees.... if they are so safe why is that? Why not get out early? The obvious answer is that boats can often outperform people. The sailboat from the tale "the perfect storm" sailed itself ashore months later in North Carolina after the crewed abandoned it.... I'm trying to remember liferaft survivor tales of those that were actually in hurricanes etc.... not sure I remember any of those instances..? Last winter or the winter before, a crew on a fishing ship in the Bearing sea entered a raft in a storm when their mainship was sinking. They were soon dispatched into the water after the raft was tumbling down the face of waves like a soccer ball. Commercial raft. Only those who had managed to get their survival suits on prior survived.. not all of them either if I remember right....
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