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Sport 175 Lifejacket
  • EN396 150N
  • Crutch strap and light fitting patch
  • Compact with superior design features
  • Manual or automatic inflation
  • With or without harness
  Type Part No.
price
   Standard Manual LIF 4000
£49.75
   Standard Automatic LIF 4010
£64.75
   Harness Manual LIF 4020
£53.74
   Harness Automatic LIF 4030
£68.75
 
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Kestrel Lifejacket

  • Kestrel Life jacket
  • EN396 160N
  • Velcro closure
  • Manual or automatic inflation
  • Single chamber
  • Crutch strap
  • Retro reflective tape / Options
    • Harness
    • Light
    • Waistbelt pouch
    whistle
Type Part No.
price
Standard Manual LIF0280
£57.50
Standard Automatic LIF0285
£74.50
Harness Manual LIF0290
£62.50
Harness Automatic LIF0295
£79.95
Hydro Automatic LIF0310
£79.95
Hydro Harness Automatic LIF0315
£84.60
 
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Professional Life jacket

A heavier duty version of the Ocean Commodore with a Cordura cover. A splashguard and harness are fitted as standard.

  • EN396 160N
  • Removable cover
  • Zipped closure
  • Spray hood
  • Retro reflective tape / whistle
  • Manual or automatic inflation
  • Single chamber
  • Crutch strap

 

Type Part No.
price
Harness Manual LIF1115
£109.00
Harness Automatic LIF1120
£139.00
 
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Compact Lifejacket

The Compact's waistcoat style design ensures that it is easy to don and comfortable to wear for long periods.

  • 176N Buoyancy
  • Twin chamber
  • Retro reflective tape / whistle / light
  • Crutch strap
  • Wipe clean cover
  • SOLAS Approved

 

Type Part No.
price
Compact 176N Twin Chamber LIF1200
£205.00
 
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Ocean 150N Lifejacket
  • EN 396
  • 150N Buoyancy
  • Velcro closure
  • Manual or automatic inflation
  • Single chamber
  • Retro reflective tape / whistle
  • Personal EPIRB pocket
  • Comfort collar
  • Options:
    • Harness
    • Light
    • Waistbelt pouch
    • Crutch strap
Type Part No.
price
Standard Manual LIF0510
£46.41
Standard Automatic LIF0520
£60.51
Harness Manual LIF0530
£49.94
Harness Automatic LIF0540
£65.21
Hydro Automatic LIF0550
£71.10
Hydro Harness Automatic LIF0555
£73.00
 
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Children's Kestrel Lifejacket (EN396)

  • Child and Junior sizes
  • Manual or automatic inflation
  • Harness and crutch strap

 

Item Weight Part No.
price
Kestrel Child Automatic 15 - 30kg LIF0080
£82.94
Kestrel Junior Manual 30 ? 40kg LIF0085
£78.20
Kestrel Junior Automatic 30 ? 40kg LIF0090
£84.95
 

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A personal flotation device (also named PFD, lifejacket, life preserver, Mae West, life vest, life saver, cork jacket, life belt) is a device designed to keep a wearer afloat and their head above water, often in swimming pools, rivers, lakes, and oceans. The term includes all types of such devices from life preservers to lifejackets to survival suits. They are available in different sizes and different designs purposed for various levels of protection.

Lifejackets or life vests are the most multiform of personal flotation devices. They are mandatory on airplanes travelling over water and are also found on sea-faring vessels, accessible to all crew and passengers and to be donned in an emergency. Floatation devices are also found in near water-edges and at swimming pools. They may appear in the form of a simple vest, a jacket, a full-body suit, or their variations suited for particular purposes. They are often made of tough synthetic fiber material encapsulating a source of buoyancy, such as foam or a chamber of air, and are often brightly colored as yellow or orange to maximize visibility for rescues.

Types

Foam core

The simplest and least buoyant of the class come in the form of nylon-lined foam vests, often used in training for swimming, or as light safety precautions in relatively safe environments, such as lake cruises and amusement parks. With no need for a leakproofing quality check because of their inherently buoyant foam cores, they can be mass-produced inexpensively and widely used, making it the most commonly seen form of lifejackets.

Air chamber

Life jackets for large commercial transport in potentially dangerous waters, such as coastal cruises and airlines, are often a sealed suit of heavy vinyl with an inflatable air chamber, and usually provides more buoyancy than its foam counterpart. The air chambers, usually located over the breast and back regions of the body, may be inflated by either self-contained carbon dioxide cartridges activated by the pulling of a cord, or blow tubes with a one-way valve for inflation by exhalation.

Drifting in open seas and international waters, as encountered by long sea voyages and military forces, require prolonged survival in water. The life jackets suited for this purpose are often also equipped with survival kits, usually containing signalling devices, first-aid kits, food, water, and shark repellent.

Deep water

PFDs including 'wet' or 'dry'-suits are made that are intended for long term immersion in cold water. A flotation device known as the Steinke hood is used as an escape device to ascend from a stranded submarine.

The Mark 10 Submarine Escape and Immersion Equipment (SEIE) suit is intended to allow submariners to escape from much deeper depths than currently possible with the Steinke Hood. Some United States Navy submarines already have the system, with an ambitious installation and training schedule in place for the remainder of the fleet.

Because it is a full body suit, the Mark 10 provides thermal protection once the wearer reaches the surface, and the British Royal Navy has successfully tested it at six hundred foot depths.

History

Origins

Ancient instances of the lifejacket can be traced back to simple blocks of wood or cork used by Norwegian seamen. The modern lifejacket is generally credited to one Captain Ward, a Royal National Lifeboat Institution inspector in the United Kingdom, who, in 1854, created a cork vest to be worn by lifeboat crews for both weather protection and buoyancy. Reference:Lifejackets.

Mae West

The Mae West was a common nickname of a Type B-4 life preserver (inflatable lifejacket), used during World War II by the Allies. The B-4 was invented by James F. Boyle. The preserver was khaki color, made of cotton with inflatable rubber bladders, with dimensions of 27.5" H x 12.75" W x 1.25" D. The nickname was based on the famously buxom figure of Mae West, one of the most popular actresses of that period.

Andrew Toti related that his mother was the inspiration for the invention of the Mae West life vest. He had bought a boat, and his mother was worried because he couldn't swim. He designed a personal life preserver filled with duck feathers. However, that was too bulky and heavy, so he used air. Toti sold the rights of the Mae West life vest to the US War Department in 1936 for £800

 

 

 

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