🔍 Key Concepts

• Ballast bags on an inflatable liferaft are pockets that hang BELOW the raft and fill with water to improve stability. • Look carefully at the items located UNDER the raft’s buoyancy tube versus those attached to the canopy or the boarding equipment. • Distinguish stability features (that resist capsizing) from access/operating gear like painters, drogues, and ladders.

💭 Think About

• Which numbered items are clearly hanging below the raft and would naturally scoop up and hold seawater when the raft is in the water? • Which numbered items are associated with boarding the raft or towing/anchoring it, and therefore would NOT be ballast bags? • Compare the shapes: which number points to wide, baglike structures under the raft rather than lines, rings, or rigid pieces?

✅ Before You Answer

• Verify that the number you choose points to an item below the main tube, not on the canopy or outer rim. • Confirm that the item looks like a bag or pocket open downward that would trap water, not a line, ladder, or drogue (sea anchor). • Double‑check each answer choice by asking: "Does this part’s main job seem to be stabilizing the raft against capsizing?"