The Captains' Guide to Liferaft Survival

By Michael Cargal

The Captains' Guide to Liferaft Survival contains everything a castaway needs to know to survive in a liferaft and get rescued as quickly as possible. Filled with useful experience from the author's 20 years as a captain, the book draws on the latest research in equipment, techniques, and emergency medicine.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0924486007
• ISBN13: 9780924486005
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Sheridan House
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Keep this book dry at all times!

Planning a cruise of more than one day on the ocean? Take this book with you and be sure you have it in your grab bag at the unfortunate circumstances you have to abandon ship. But first give it a good read when you are still on terra firma. One point of critique: This book was written in the time when portable GPS was not common. So this invaluable instrument is unmentioned. But in case of a breakdown or loss of your GPS, Captain Cargal has some nice shoe string navigational advice for you. Also the SAR (the Search And Rescue operation following the activation of your EPIRB) is not explained. Minor remarks, because the consciencious skipper must know these facts already from other sources.