| DavenHelen |
| (regular) |
| 15/05/2008 08:49 |
|
Re: "Liferaft" is it needed for coastal cruising in UK
|
Quote:
With regards to yachts foundering and liferaft usage it is completely irrelevant because the incidents are less that 2 a year - and some years none. So it does not matter whether it is 1000 or 100000 movements or 1 million or 10 million miles, the probability of a foundering occuring is statistically unmeasurable.
Let me understand this, you are saying that if the whole leisure fleet does 10,000 between them in a year and has 1 foundering incident it is the same as if they do 1,000,000 miles?
You can measure the incidents but you have no data on usage involved. For road vehicles the total annual mileage is around the 300bnmark, with serious accidents at 1 every 10m miles travelled (rough figures based on a quick trawl). With those odds against having a serious accident, maybe we shouldn't bother with seatbelts and airbags.