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ANNEX III - Specifications for Water Pockets

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An inflatable life raft must be fitted with water pockets that comply with the following requirements.

  1. The total volume of the pockets must be not less than 25 percent of the minimum required volume of the principal buoyancy chamber of the life raft.
  2. The pockets must be securely attached and evenly distributed around the periphery of the exterior bottom of the life raft. They may be omitted at the location of inflation cylinders.
  3. The pockets must be designed to deploy underwater when the life raft inflates. If weights are used for this purpose, they must be of corrosion-resistant material.

Applications for approval shall be directed to:

The Manager, Safety Equipment
Transport Canada – Marine Safety
330 Sparks Street, Tower C, 11-th Floor,
Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0N8 Canada

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Date modified:
2011-01-28