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WCDT Nov 28 - Dec 2 (strips #4926 to #4930)
JimC:
--- Quote from: Near Lurker on 01 Dec 2022, 18:20 ---Momo wear a life jacket ... since we know it wouldn't do anything for her? (They're typically rated at, what, 50 N? Not enough to hold up Little Miss Metal Mario.)
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They vary greatly. 50N is a buoyancy aid, typically used for immersion watersports. Not bulky so not clumsy. But if you fall off a ship into a serious sea and aren't pulled out immediately all a 50N aid will really do is make it easier for the coastguard/lifeboatmen (delete as appt. for location) to find your corpse. A full on lifejecket may be up to 275N, which is designed to turn you the right way up and keep nose/mouth clear of the water. Biggest risk for humans (with lifejeckets - and should I say 'people with lungs') may be secondary drowning. Momo presumably just needs to float, although I wonder what salt water tolerance is like for a retail grade AI chassis.
SmilingCat:
Weird how little things stir up memories.
When I was a kid, 10-11 years old, I spent a couple summers working on my grampa's charter boat (I was "assistant deck hand", mostly I was there to do the jobs my brother didn't want to). We never wore life jackets. We had them for the passengers if they wanted them, but we never wore them. Not even me, who was a child who never bothered to learn to swim. None of the boat crews did, and they weren't required to by law unless we were in a situation that the skipper determined was hazardous.
A fair number of years after my short time down there, one of the local boats (whose deckhand was supposed to be a cousin of mine until he swapped at the last minute) got caught in a bad sea and went over. Of the nineteen people on her, the deckhand and seven passengers survived. Of the survivors, six of them had managed to get on the life jackets stored in the cabin. Of the ones who didn't make it, only one had a life jacket.
So yeah.
hedgie:
--- Quote from: JimC on 02 Dec 2022, 04:29 --- Biggest risk for humans (with lifejeckets - and should I say 'people with lungs') may be secondary drowning. Momo presumably just needs to float, although I wonder what salt water tolerance is like for a retail grade AI chassis.
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At the lake party, she was able to walk along the bottom just fine. Then again, that’s fresh water, but everything important is presumably water-tight.
Mr_Rose:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 02 Dec 2022, 14:53 ---
--- Quote from: JimC on 02 Dec 2022, 04:29 --- Biggest risk for humans (with lifejeckets - and should I say 'people with lungs') may be secondary drowning. Momo presumably just needs to float, although I wonder what salt water tolerance is like for a retail grade AI chassis.
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At the lake party, she was able to walk along the bottom just fine. Then again, that’s fresh water, but everything important is presumably water-tight.
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She was also able to pull herself to the surface by only slightly terrifying Marten, who only had an ordinary float-ring for extra buoyancy. Or was it a pool noodle?
hedgie:
I think that it was a pool noodle.
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