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3.3.8 Individual life jacket
This kind of life jacket assures, by means of a suitable distribution of the
oating material, the support of a body with the face out of water, apart from
the position taken by the body when diving in the water. These life jackets
must be worn correctly and rmly tied by means of strong laces.
It is important to learn, particularly for children, how to oat in water with the
life jacket.
To avoid energy waste it is necessary to oat by keeping legs and arms
folded as far as possible and tight to the body to maintain the heat. The in-
dividual life jacket is equipped with an orange whistle, fastened to the jacket
by means of a safety cord.
The whistle is particularly useful to indicate the wearer’s position when the
weather conditions do not allow sufcient visibility (bad weather, fog, etc..).
The individual life jacket has to be worn under following circumstances:
• When you navigate through sandbanks or tide reefs;
• At rst sign of bad weather;
• When visibility is limited;
• When you navigate with rough sea;
• When you navigate alone;
• At any time with children below 10 years of age.
CAUTION
The yacht must be equipped with a number of individual life jackets equal
to the number of persons present on board. All persons boarded must
know the location of the life jackets, how to wear them, how to tie them
properly to the body, and where the whistle is located.
DANGER
If you are to choose a life jacket for a child, take care about for the correct
size and that smaller children do not slip out of them once in water. We
recommend that all children wear an individual life jacket when they move
on the yacht.
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