Viața sau pluta de moarte – nu sunt făcute pentru a vă menține în viață! & „Theros” Revizuirea investigației

31 thoughts on “Viața sau pluta de moarte – nu sunt făcute pentru a vă menține în viață! & „Theros” Revizuirea investigației”

1. And dont forget a pair of reading glasses in your grab bag they can also be packed in the liferaft ,

2. I have taken the Safety at Sea Course. One thing that stuck in my mind is do NOT get off you ship and step DOWN to your liferaft. You want to step UP to your liferaft. Getting off your ship is a last resort, as she is going down.

3. I'm not a sailor. Let me take a crack at it using common sense. Waterproof electronic comm and location equipment. water. Dry suits. Medical stuff, food, sea sickness pills, a couple water makers that you just drop over the side to purify water, sea anchor, Some way to propel the life raft. Stuff to get you dry and warm. Patches for the raft and a way to inflate. Solar panel to keep comm equipment charged.

4. FYI, Theros was retro fitted with batteries from a Nissan Leaf and electric motor (not sure what motor), plus 6 solar panels. All of this was installed by the owner of Theros. The assumption was that there was some sort of thermal runaway battery fire, hence the burn marks on the suit, and no liferaft or EPRIB.

5. wow you talk alot withouth saying anything

6. Is that company ACR, the same ACR refusing to recall defective air bags?

7. Thank you!

8. Question, alkaline batteries leak acid? Alkaline is the PH opposite of an acid. So wouldn't it then mix the acid with the alkaline, and leak a PH neutral chemical?

9. "Off shore special regulations requires, that the liferaft must be accessible when the boat is upside-down"! On the picture shown with this sentence, we see a raft mounted aft flush with the deck. Meaning, that if capsized, it would be well under water! How accessible is that? To mitigate that, you could mount the raft close to the water line. But then it would be constantly awash! Wouldn´t that cause problems?

10. Great video. Imho, sailing community would greatly benefit from something similar the Air Safety Institute does for General aviation – accident investigation, debrief and lessons learned. The open and honest communication about this is in my opinion major reason why aviation is becoming ever more safer.

11. Kids these days… What ever happened to going down with the ship?

12. A few years ago i joined the group called the "puddle jump" who were sailing from mexico to the Marquesas. One of the people who gave a talk was a woman who had to abandon her boat along with four crew due to hitting a whale. This was not even a day out of San Diego, so they were sure to be rescued. But it was interesting to hear her talk about the mistakes they made trying to get their raft out of a cockpit locker and especially how to get the water out of the raft. If you climb aboard a liferaft from the water the raft WILL take on water. They sat around with six inches of water inside the raft trying to figure out a way to get the water out. They finally used one of the crew's ballcap to bail with. They were soon rescued but it was very interesting.

13. There are a lot of people that suspect a battery fire consumed the boat… That may be correct but it is far more likely that if the 300+ kg of NMC battery caught fire, it would simply melt it's way out the bottom of the boat, sinking it before the raging inferno had time to burn it to the waterline. The thermal runaway would have been insanely fast! Within a minute or two of the fist runaway cell, the entire interior of the vessel would have been 300C and blasting toxic smoke out of the companionway. EPIRB, ditch bag, water, VHF would have been inaccessible within seconds of realizing there was a problem. The life raft was directly over where the main electrical connections to the motor were made, it is my guess that the raft was useless within minutes of knowing there was a problem.
    If anyone wants to see how fast this can get out of control, look up Paris bus battery fire.

    I work with NMC batteries in the Marine environment and I can say for a fact: DIY and NMC do not mix well. If you are considering a large energy storage system for a boat and you don't have a chemical or electrical engineering degree or eq. experience, stick with lithium-IRON phosphate; it is far more stable, nearly as good as NMC, and still massively better than AGM.

14. Another great very informative video, thank you 🙂

15. I've always hated that the term "liferaft" makes it sound like it's magically gonna save you. I shall becalling it a life or death raft from now on!

16. 3:01 Alkaline batteries are full of an alkaline electrolyte, not an acid electrolyte. That's why we can use a mild acid (like white vinegar) to neutralize the spillage.

17. Survival. noun. the state or fact of continuing to live or exist. I feel like you think your phrase measn something, but it makes no sense to me. Keeping me afloat keeps me alive.

18. Great Info!… The Queen’s Birthday Documentary about the June 1994 Weather Bomb event between New Zealand and Tonga sharply highlights the importance of an EPIRB – SAR did an extraordinary brave effort in the rescue; in very difficult conditions!

19. The Ancient Mariner: “…Water, water, every where,
    And all the boards did shrink;
    Water, water, every where,
    Nor any drop to drink…”

20. Thank you, I thought i had a good grip on what i thought i would be seeing, but prior to this i had no issue with life raft placement on center deck, nor the usual placement of most boats epirb below deck. That will change. Prompted by a couple of quality comments before me. Re lithium, NOTHING but top quality Lifepo4 batteries in a boat. There is a BMS (battery monitoring control unit / computer?) inbuilt to prevent thermal runaway/ fires that you WONT put out. So if you use cheap batteries what sort of BMS system do you get????????. Also, Lithium CANT be charged from your alternator, needs to be from a DC to DC charger from your non lithium start battery (usually). Lots more, but this is just to beg you to seek professional help. It actually is straightforward.
    Lastly from mandatory offshore racing we had personal epirbs. So I have one for my 4WD trips around Aus. I will have attached to my lifejacket in any short or single handed journeys'.
    Just found this channel, so will look forward to watching more. Thank you for sharing real world advice.

21. FYI it’s not acid that leaks out of batteries…

22. This is screamingly funny.

23. Everyone blaming the li-ion batteries while they happily sail around with 10-20kg propane on board. That makes zero sense in my opinion.

    I personally have experience with li-ion and lead acide installations. Try to guess witch battery type I have had thermal runaway in? Due to good management system and monitoring devices the problem was caught in time. The repurposed Leaf batteries still run smoothly, thank you.

24. The Communist lie that the Sky is falling kills another pair of useful idiot Hippies that demand the government use its force to make us all useful idiots like them… God doesn't like the Communists very much apparently.

25. I remember receiving a similar talk from the pilot of an air sea rescue helicopter pilot. One thing he pointed out, is that even if all your electronic gadgetry was up to date and working, when a helicopter is hovering over someone in the water, it's like looking for a basket ball. Flashing lights and brightly coloured clothing are next to useless.

    He implored us all to keep sachets of dye, he said they disperse in the water with the current and point to you like an arrow.

    Hardly anyone repeats this advice.

26. Have a PLB attached to your life vest!😅

27. I’m not a sailor (I’m a kayaker), but if I was on a small boat offshore I’d not just be relying on getting to the boat’s EPIRBs. For kayaking I have a PLB (pocket sized EPIRB) and you can be sure I’d be keeping that in my pocket/clipped to my gear if I was offshore.

28. I have a friend who before doing the single handed transpac (to HI) for the second time sent his "life raft" back to the mfr for recert (required by the race committee) and much to his surprise it failed cert as it was packed up with a major slit in it (much larger than could be repaired with any reasonable kit let alone it would never inflate so repairing would be that much more difficult/impossible)… made him think twice about even getting a new LR since this came from the factory sealed up but with a fatal flaw in it…

    practice, practice, practice, on your boat so you can see gear placement shortcomings… having an epirb below decks is only ok if you have several… life rafts are really only luxury life vests…

29. I've done various sea survival courses and crucially a first aid at sea where we were told that a very important item to have in a life raft is a water bottle, when the fresh water is finished it can be filled with salt water from the sea, in a life or death situation the sea water can be "squired" up the bum and your body will absorb the water filtering out the salt.

30. I've done various sea survival courses and crucially a first aid at sea where we were told that a very important item to have in a life raft is a water bottle, when the fresh water is finished it can be filled with salt water from the sea, in a life or death situation the sea water can be "squired" up the bum and your body will absorb the water filtering out the salt.

31. This is the same as car safety kits and earthquake kits.
    And don't get me started on first aid kits.

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