🔍 Key Concepts

• Personal flotation devices (PFDs/life preservers) and why you normally keep them on in emergencies • How an inflatable liferaft flips upright and what happens to people underneath it • Risk of entrapment or fouling under the raft versus safe ways to exit

💭 Think About

• Think about what your life preserver is doing for you while you are in the water and whether it is usually recommended to remove it in any emergency. • Visualize yourself under an upside‑down raft: when you pull on the righting lines and it comes upright, where does the raft go and where does your body want to go? • Which option best reduces the chance of being trapped or tangled while still keeping you buoyant and protected from drowning?

✅ Before You Answer

• Verify whether standard survival training tells you to keep or remove your lifejacket in the water. • Consider which choice avoids being pinned between the raft and the water as it flips. • Check which action minimizes chances of your PFD catching on the raft’s structure or lines while you move out from under it.