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I really appreciate the information on this thread, but I have a question I'm not sure there is an answer for... Someone somewhere probably tabulated how many times liferafts have been used. As a percentage of sailors, calculating days sailing, etc: What are the chances? I eat right, exercise regularly, and my doctor says statistically I'll live to a hundred. If someone watches the weather, sails conservatively, etc, does the chance of needing the liferaft approach that of being hit by a meteor? I know there are the unforseen random chances: Jworld sunk on the BajaHaHa a couple weeks ago after a collision with a whale. Does anyone know of any statistical analysis of these types of incidences? I fully respect anyones decision to carry a liferaft; we all have our personal margins of comfortability. My margins are pretty grey in this area due to the lack of 'hard' data.
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