Liferaft

A piece of crucial maritime safety equipment designed to provide emergency escape and survival for passengers and crew during ship emergencies. Compact and inflatable, a life raft offers a buoyant haven in distress situations, equipped with essential spare parts to endure harsh conditions until rescue.

Liferaft Types

SOLAS Life Raft

Complying with the stringent Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) regulations, this specialized life raft adheres to the highest international safety standards.

HSC Open Reversible Inflatable LifeRaft

Tailored for high-speed craft, this innovative liferaft China boasts a unique reversible design, enabling quick deployment even in challenging conditions.

Rigid Life Raft

Distinguished by its rigid construction, this type of life raft offers additional stability and security in turbulent waters.

Yacht Liferaft

Specially crafted for leisure vessels and yachts, this compact and lightweight liferaft ensures optimal space utilization without compromising on safety.

Liferaft Spares

A range of indispensable accessories and replacement components designed to maintain and augment liferaft functionality.

Important Solas Requirements For Liferafts

All life rafts provided on board the ship must be equipped with a painter line permanently secured to the ship.

Each life raft or group of life rafts must be equipped with hydrostatic release unit, ensuring that each life raft can float freely. If it is an inflatable raft, it should automatically inflate when the ship sinks.

The storage of life rafts should allow for the manual release of one life raft or container at a time from the securing arrangements.

Life rafts launched by a davit should be stowed within reach of the davit hook unless some transfer device is provided to ensure that they can be operated within the required limits of inclination or during ship motion or power failure.

Life rafts used for throw overboard launching should be stowed on both sides of the ship to facilitate easy transfer for launching.

What are the features of an inflatable life raft?

The characteristics of an inflatable liferaft are as follows:

The inflatable life raft is a life-saving equipment used by people in distress in the event of a shipwreck. When it is used, it is landed from the ship overboard. At this time, the life raft relies on its own CO₂+N₂ gas mixture to inflate form, and float on the water surface. As one of the leading inflatable life raft manufacturers, we ensure every product meets rigorous safety standards.

Life rafts have been widely used in all kinds of sailing ships, in Marine lifesaving equipment, playing an increasingly important role, becoming a major lifesaving equipment, but also the safest and most effective lifesaving equipment. Compared with other life-saving equipment, the most significant characteristics of inflatable life rafts are small size, lightweight, easy to use, stable performance, safe, and reliable.

The inflatable life raft is a new type of life-saving equipment developed in the 1960s, it is made of rubber, usually folded and placed in a glass steel container, the shape of the container is usually a hemispherical cylinder at both ends. When in use, pull the cable of the inflation valve, and the CO₂ cylinder placed in the raft will automatically inflate the life raft, making it bulge into a round soft raft with a tent. The raft is also equipped with emergency drinking water, survival food rations, a first aid kit, lifesaving hand flares or rockets, and automatic distress radio and other items and equipment. There are also flashing lights on the roof of the tent, so that rescuers can search at night. People who ride in the tent avoid the impact of waves, cold wind or sun exposure. For reliable procurement, we serve as trusted inflatable life raft suppliers offering certified products for maritime safety.

Benefits of Liferaft

Excellent Safety Performance

Convenient Operation and Storage

Durable and Reliable Design

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