Disappointed that all this kind of nonsense is coming out again after the last round of such posts on the topic 3 months ago, but recognise that the current posters may not have seen the well over 300 posts of all shades of opinion.

"Sitting in the water with my crew/family dying around me" just rarely happens except in the most extreme conditions that most of us will never experience - and even then the record of liferafts is not good. Please read all the MAIB reports and base your opinions and decisions on evidence not wild speculation.

With regard to the Ouzo report. Read it carefully. There is no evidence that a hydrostatic liferaft would have saved them - only a "belief" based on the fact that the crew was alive when they entered the water and if they had been able to get in a raft they would have survived. This assumes that the release worked, the raft inflated and they were were sufficiently close to board (in itself not easy). Lots of "ifs" as other MAIB reports will show.