Many people think a thin, complicated PVC vessel will survive in conditions severe enough to sink their yacht because it has the word ‘life` in the title. In other words, because it says so on the packet. There are plenty of stories of sailors whose lives were saved by a life raft that confirm this view. We seldom hear reports from sailors whose life rafts failed to inflate or broke up instantly - probably for the very good reason that these lost souls are living with the mermaids. Unhappy customers seldom return, making an accurate survey of the benefits of life rafts almost impossibly
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