How to use a lifeline

The journey by boat is a wonderful thing! How many pleasant experiences, extraordinary scenery from the window of the cabin or promenade deck you will take home from this journey! Make your boat trip was prepared from a security perspective, you need to follow some rules, as mentioned in the instructions How to follow safety rules on the water transport . Also you useful knowledge about how to use a lifeline .

Instruction

Difficulty level: Easy

step 1

Lifeline the means of saving a drowning person. Make lifeline of solid and sufficiently durable material, such as cork, polyurethane or foam. Works lifeline as a float. In order to recognize a lifeline fit, conduct special tests for durability and ability to resist water. For the manufacture of lifebuoys there GOST standards. More information about this can be read here .

2 step

Lifeline thrown into the water, if the detected man overboard water vessel, or if there is a drowning man near the beach, pier, promenade. Should be thrown as close as possible to the person, but it does not please him in the head, because the blow with a heavy object (weight lifebuoys from 4.5 to 7.0 kg) will lead to injury or loss of consciousness.

3 step

To take advantage of the lifeline you need to put it on, so it is located in the armpits, hands on top of the circle. In this position you can stay on the surface of the water for a long time without taking any extra effort.

Lifeline can use two people holding him by the hands, you need to hold on to the rope (Leer), which is strengthened on the outside of the circle.