life raft
救生筏,救生艇,生命筏,救命筏
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- : a raft, often inflatable, for use in emergencies, as when a ship must be abandoned or when a plane is downed at sea.
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In its first-response role, the drone is built to carry and release self-inflating life rafts, allowing people in the water the opportunity to climb aboard and wait for slower rescuers without having to tread water.
Some people have survived by climbing aboard roofs and using them as makeshift life rafts.
At London’s Defence and Security Equipment International exhibition, Portugal- and UK-based drone company Tekever announced September 14 that its AR5 drone can now carry and deploy self-inflating life rafts to assist in water rescue.
In June, for example, a helicopter out of Massachusetts grabbed three people off a life raft after their fishing boat sank near Montauk Point, New York.
His life as a man is built around health insurance and tax services.
It was also an attack on our freedom of expression and way of life.
I always wanted my life to be that way, and it became that way.
I liked it because it was like my life coming back together.
When the father arrived at the hospital, he was told that Andrew Dossi was in surgery, but the wounds were not life-threatening.
Now, it immediately occurred to Davy that he had never in his whole life had all the plums he wanted at any one time.
Dean Swift was indeed a misanthrope by theory, however he may have made exception to private life.
We shall recover again some or all of the steadfastness and dignity of the old religious life.
It is the dramatic impulse of childhood endeavouring to bring life into the dulness of the serious hours.
Woman is mistress of the art of completely embittering the life of the person on whom she depends.