About Safety Supplies Boating

If you will be traveling on coastal waters or out on the ocean, you will have to have other supplies onboard.

Safety supplies needed on a boat varies little from one boat to another. Most of
the basic supplies can be purchased singly or as part of a kit. These items include,
but are not limited to the following: PFDs (personal flotation devices), a life
raft, knife, flashlight, mirror, line, water packets, rations, flares, glow sticks,
and first-aid kit. These items should remain onboard at all times.

If you will be traveling on coastal waters or out on the ocean, you will have to
have other supplies onboard. You must have daytime and nighttime distress signals,
which work properly to signal for help. These distress signals can include fog
horns that sound continuously, gun fire, red parachute flare, and a signal sign. This
is an orange background with a black square at the top and a black ball below the
black square, a radio, a dye marker, code flags, smoke, ship to shore radio, etc.

You need to keep enough water on your vessel for drinking when out for the day and
for emergency. If you become stranded, you and your passengers should not drink
carbonated drinks or alcohol but water until rescued.

The Internet offers may sites for both safety supplies and information. All boating
enthusiast need to have the necessary safety supplies on the boat all the time.
The prices may vary slightly, what is import is that you acquire the safety supplies
that you need to have an enjoyable and safe boating experience.

 

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