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  2. Lifeboat (shipboard) - Wikipedia

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    Lifeboat (shipboard) A lifeboat or liferaft is a small, rigid or inflatable boat carried for emergency evacuation in the event of a disaster aboard a ship. Lifeboat drills are required by law on larger commercial ships. Rafts (liferafts) are also used. In the military, a lifeboat may double as a whaleboat, dinghy, or gig.

  3. List of inflatable manufactured goods - Wikipedia

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    An inflatable laser maze. This is a non-comprehensive list of inflatable manufactured goods, as no such list could ever completely contain all items that regularly change.An inflatable [1] is an object that can typically be inflated with a gas, including air, hydrogen, helium and nitrogen.

  4. Water ball - Wikipedia

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    A water ball or water walking ball is a large inflatable sphere that allows a person inside it to walk across the surface of a body of water. The giant ball is usually two metres in diameter and has a zippered entrance to allow for easy entry and exit. The water ball [1] is similar to the zorb but it has only one layer and is designed for water ...

  5. Steve (Minecraft) - Wikipedia

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    Steve is a player character from the 2011 sandbox video game Minecraft. Created by Swedish video game developer Markus "Notch" Persson and introduced in the 2009 Java-based version, Steve is the first of nine default player character skins available for players of contemporary versions of Minecraft. Steve lacks an official backstory as he is ...

  6. Inflatable boat - Wikipedia

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    An inflatable boat is a lightweight boat constructed with its sides and bow made of flexible tubes containing pressurised gas. For smaller boats, the floor and hull are often flexible, while for boats longer than 3 metres (9.8 ft), the floor typically consists of three to five rigid plywood or aluminium sheets fixed between the tubes, but not ...

  7. Rigid inflatable boat - Wikipedia

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    RNLI inshore rescue boat during Falmouth Lifeboat Day, August 2006. A rigid inflatable boat (RIB), also rigid-hull inflatable boat or rigid-hulled inflatable boat (RHIB), is a lightweight but high-performance and high-capacity boat constructed with a rigid hull bottom joined to side-forming air tubes that are inflated with air to a high pressure so as to give the sides resilient rigidity along ...

  8. Marine evacuation system - Wikipedia

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    A marine evacuation system (MES) is a lifesaving device found on many modern passenger ships or oil rigs consisting of an inflatable slide or escape chute where a passenger can evacuate straight into waiting life rafts. Developed in 1979 by RFD, a New Zealand–based company that distributes safety equipment; MES is replacing traditional davit ...

  9. List of equipment of the United States Coast Guard - Wikipedia

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    1 x MK 110 57 mm gun a variant of the Bofors 57 mm gun and Gunfire Control System. 1 x BAE Systems Mk 38 Mod 3 25 mm gun with 7.62 mm co-axial gun. 2 x M2 Browning .50 caliber (12.7 mm) machine guns mounted on a MK 50 Stabilized Small Arms Mount (SSAM) 4 x crew-served M2 Browning .50 caliber (12.7 mm) machine guns.