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Properly installed, MOB poles are easy to deploy and are critical to recoving a man overboard. The combo or strobe, pole, horseshoe, drogue and whistle is the norm. (The drogue is necessary to keep the equipment from being blown down wind so fast that the man in the water can't get to it. )
I have had been on boats that deployed the MOB equipment for drills and accidentally on occasion. The accidental deploy was during an offshore race and in the days before poles had drougues and we were unable to locate and recover the equipment.
Jeff
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 Curmudgeon at Large
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