Our list of safety equipment includes the folowing general items located around Tiburon:
- 406 mhz EPIRB
- 2 fire extinguishers
- PFD 1 lifejackets (traditional for Mark and auto inflate for Karen), with crotch straps - a restraint hareness each with crotch straps, to prevent us falling overboard (only worn depending on conditions)
- high volume bilge pump with two auto switches (for redundancy) and manual overide
- fire bucket
- 2 anchors and rodes
- life ring
- no liferaft but we do carry an inflatable dinghy (which is always kept inflated)
In our "grab kit" which is ready if we have an emergency we carry:
- 121.5 mhz personal EPIRB
- set of flares
- v-sheet
- signalling mirror
- handheld compass
- handheld GPS
- and other survival gear such as sunscreen, spare water etc.
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