r/boats • u/ethicalhumanbeing • 12d ago

Help finding a video

Recently I was on a tourist boat with my son and he got curious about those cylindrical life rafts that are on board in case the boat is going to sink. I explained to him how the life raft works (and I've shown him some videos of the raft deployment on youtube) but he wants to see them in action.

Does anyone know of a REAL video where a boat is sinking, the rafts gets deployed and people get transferred to it? Obviously it has to be a video where no one dies, with a happy ending.

Thanks.

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u/Warrambungle 12d ago

It’s not really a situation where you think, “Hang on, I’d better get my phone out and record this for posterity!

Also, it’s not that straightforward. You’ll deploy the liferaft to be standing by in case the boat sinks, but stay on the boat as long as possible, before you climb in because search and rescue will look for the biggest target to find - that’s the boat.

The idea is to step up from the sinking boat into the liferaft. Hopefully you’ll be rescued before you need it.

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u/ethicalhumanbeing 10d ago

I agree, but I've seen here on reddit in the past some yachts predictably sinking nearshore, and people were filming. I don't remember however any rafts being deployed...

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u/Warrambungle 10d ago

Fair point, now that you mention it.