enhance your chances for survival.During wartime, each person aboard ship is issued alife preserver. Wear it or keep it handy at all times.During peacetime, life preservers are stowed inready-use lockers. Know where your preserver isstowed, how to put it on, and how to release and inflatethe lifeboat.Life PreserversThe Navy uses two types of life preservers—theinherently buoyant and the inflatable types. Theinherently buoyant type has several designs. The vesttype is the most widely used.I N H E R E N T LY BU OYA N T T Y P E . — T h einherently buoyant vest type of life preserver (fig. 15-4)uses fibrous glass pads to provide buoyancy. The padsare sealed in plastic waterproof bags placed in an outer15-5Student Notes:Figure 15-4.—Adjusting the inherently buoyant vest-type life preserver.
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