I don't mean - "go to your muster station" ... i am wondering, say that you are on the ship and have free reign, should you try to be as high up as possible or on the side of the ship away from the direction the boat is tilting, etc. How to best escape ...?
2007-04-10 14:57:10 · 12 answers · asked by theorbo 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Boats & Boating
If the lifeboats are being lowered, go to one and get in. If not, as in the case of several foreign flag ships lately, grab several buoyant objects, make your way to the bow or stern, throw them out into the water, get over the railing, cross your arms on your chest, step off the ship and quickly cross your legs, keep your eyes on the horizon while dropping feet first to the water, come to the surface, locate the nearest buoyancy device and swim to it, and quickly move away from the ship to avoid the undertow as it goes down.
note: Crossing the arms breaks the water force...which can otherwise hit the bottom of the chin, forcing the head back and breaking the neck. Crossing the legs prevents debilitating damage to the groin. Do not try to hold a bouncy device while jumping overboard as it can easily cause a dislocated arm (or worse) when you and it hit the water.
2007-04-10 15:12:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's a problem that the Titanic encounterd. It listed which prevented the high side life boats and life rafts from deploying as they should.
If you want to get off in a life raft, get to the low side. If you're hoping to picked off by a helicopter, go to the high side.
The best thing to do for survival is get off via the quickest possible route. A ship begins to list as more water comes in one side more quickly than it can flow to the other side of the hull. As the water displaces air in the hull, the weight of the superstructure becomes greater than the bouyancy of the displaced air, which will cause the boat to capsize.
I don't really have much desire to be on a sinking ship any longer than I have to, (all though I've gone down with the ship at a couple of doomed companies,) so if they say man lifeboats, I plan on being one of the first men in line. If the ship starts to list, I'll set a record for crossing the ships beam to get to the low side before anyone else notices.
My rule at work is that if I come at a run, something's wrong. If I go past at a run, you should be get in the vapor trail behind me.
But, typically, given the stability of current ocean liners, I'd say just get to the closest lifeboat station and get into a life boat as quickly as possible.
Good luck
2007-04-10 15:12:28 · answer #2 · answered by jettech 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the crew has gone AWOL and you are left to your own devices the best thing to do is go to the low side and find a raft these are in red or orange capsules and release the capsule it will fall and inflate in the water. Then you will leave the ship and get on the raft. Try to paddle the raft away from the ship. Though in most cases the raft will drift away from the ship on it's own. Then pull in as many swimmers as you can fit in your raft. You don't take the boats as they will be hard if not impossible to lower once the ship lists enough. PS always make sure you have a life jacket on and if possible be well dressed.
2007-04-11 11:00:12 · answer #3 · answered by brian L 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
robo cop has a good answer.....
the post about the Titanic is wrong; she sank on an even keel....it was Andrea Doria in 1956 off Massachusetts that listed so badly that the boats on the high side couldn't be used ...
so:
PUT ON YOUR LIFEJACKET! The SOALS Type I's give 33 pounds buoyancy, which is enough to hold up a 33 pound chunk of iron let alone a person.....find somewhere to jump as close t the water as possible, as robocop said...if you jump from 30 foot, you'll probably break something.....paddle away, but not too far away from the ship.....after the Andrea Doria fiasco, ships were required to carry inflatable liferafts...those are the canisters about the size of an oil drum sowed near the lifeboats......they release from the ship automatically at 33 feet, inflate, bob to the surface and then the line holding them to the ship breaks if the ship goes down.........paddle over to a raft and climb in thru the inflatable boarding ladder.....not easy! and wait for rescue
2007-04-11 03:29:06 · answer #4 · answered by yankee_sailor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put on your life jacket and slide down the deck (or the hull) into the water, if the ship has enough of a list. Then , once in the water, swim like a son of a gun to get away from the sinking hull. If you can jump, go with Robocop's suggestion, otherwise, do this.
2007-04-11 05:24:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there are life boats on the side that is tilting go to that side, since it will be very difficult to launch the boats from the high side. Try to stay out of the water as long as you can to avoid hypothermia.
2007-04-10 16:05:56 · answer #6 · answered by Cactus Dan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not that im an expert on the subject but i would have to think that you would want to get ahold of some boyant object and get off the boat before it completely goes down or you would get pulled down with it by the vacume caused by the water flowing into the space the boat once filled
2007-04-10 15:02:10 · answer #7 · answered by Dr. GSX-R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To the life jackets, then the life boats or where ever your captain & crew tell you to go. This is no time for independent thought - they are trained for this & we would be frightened thus probably a little irrational..
2007-04-10 17:03:34 · answer #8 · answered by Wolfpacker 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that you'd want to get away from the boat, so that you don't go down with it. I would try to get in a lifeboat, or get on something that floats.
2007-04-10 15:05:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Brilliant!
2016-05-17 07:06:03 · answer #10 · answered by renetta 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋