From my
boat they look a bloody long way up. I hope there's a
safety notice giving the minimum
depth of
water for safe release, they must go in at quite a lick, even if they are a bit blunt at the front end. We see them at the
Southampton Docks on Bulk Car Ships, and Container Vessels where most of the crew are so far above waterline that they have lifts just to get to
deck lebel, then a few levels of staircases to get to the bottom. I was involved in chipping out cocoa butter after a tanktainer split. It was fluidish in the
Panama, Toffee in the UK. The Port Athorities refused to let it leave unless the
bilge pumps were shown to be working. A SLOW JOB.
And those lifeboats are definitely not built for sea worthyness.
Sea sickness being less of a problem than an LPG ship on fire!!!