Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Marine Emergency Supplies

By Eric Holm


First aid or primary protection is directly related with being protected against social, physical, financial, emotional, occupational, psychological or other consequences that can bring a major physical injury. This is also related to the way of being protected against any grave situation or something that causes an emotional loss. Emergency may arise anywhere or at anytime out of nowhere and when you least expect it. There are different kinds of safety; home safety may be defined by the ability to protect the residents against external harm. Another major form of safety can be defined as marine safety.

Special preventive measures are required to be followed when you are on a marine trip. Marine safety is related to using or following complete life-saving systems for all levels of marine activity; beginning from offshore platforms and passenger ships to cargo ships, sea expeditions, commercial fishing and boating. The negligence in such activities may lead to disastrous problems, including a threat to life.

Fires on a boat or oil rig can lead to a major problem. That is when you should know that bunker gear is an item that you need to have. This gear made mainly for fire fighters on land can be used at sea as well. This gear is flexible enough to allow movement, but durable enough that it will keep people from being burnt when they are trying to keep their boats afloat while putting the fire out.

Immersion Suit, the immersion suits are the best to be used to prevent getting drowned. It can be worn by both - those working in or near water bodies as well as by those who are on sea trips. It is best to be used where there is a danger of accidental drowning. The immersion suit removes the risk of 'cold shock' or hypothermia. Inflatable Rescue Boats, the inflatable rescue boats are especially designed to be used in case of an emergency. It can be used for all forms of surfing rescues, retrieval and service. These boats are generally made of rubber with 4 inflatable tubes, 2 side tubes along with a bow tube and keel tube. The flexibility of the inflatable boats makes it a necessary sea disaster supplies item. Life Raft, often a life raft acts as hope for last chance of survival. It makes for another important emergency supplies item to included in marine safety kit. At the time of rough seas, the elasticity and the flexibility of the life raft makes it usable against immersion threats while still at sea. Soft Body Armor, maritime crime and piracy is rapidly increasing causing threat to even the innocent tourists at sea. In the last decade itself, around 4 million people have been killed by lightweight weapons. As a prevention against such threats, soft body armor makes an important equipment to be kept in the sea disaster kits.

While many people will not think that this item is going to be that important, they need realize that marine safety is important. This could easily be the one thing that you can control in your own life.




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