Rhumb Lines
March 2012 Issue
Help Us Design a Better PFD/harness
Do try this at home: Don your favorite inflatable-PFD/ harness and inflate it. Don’t waste a gas cartridge; use the oral inflation tube. Wade into the water. A pool is fine—make sure it is still shallow enough to stand. Now, imagine you are underneath an overturned hull and are trying to escape. Try to swim beneath the surface as you might do to get out from under the turtled boat. You don’t have to dive deep, the imaginary overturned boat could be as small as a dinghy.
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