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10 reasons for a platisimo life raft

10 reasons for a platisimo life raft

Product catalog summary
Introduction
Plastimo emphasizes the importance of complete safety at sea, highlighting their philosophy that safety should not be compromised. Their liferafts are designed with unique features to ensure maximum safety and reliability.
Specifications
  • Double Chamber Construction: Plastimo liferafts feature a 'tube-within-a-tube' design, combining a polyurethane inner chamber with a PVC-coated polyester outer shell. This construction offers extreme resistance and airtightness, reduces servicing costs, and facilitates easier repairs at sea.
  • Ballast System: Equipped with large deep ballast pockets, Plastimo liferafts improve stability and prevent drifting, multiplying anti-capsizing forces by 3 or 4 times compared to standard water pockets.
  • Survival Equipment: The survival equipment is packed in a watertight pouch secured inside the raft, ensuring it remains accessible and visible under all conditions.
Warranty and Service
  • 12-Year Warranty: Plastimo offers a 12-year warranty on all liferafts, starting from the date of purchase.
  • Free Service or Replacement: If a liferaft saves a life due to shipwreck, Plastimo will service or replace it free of charge.
  • Servicing Schedule: Liferafts require servicing only every 3 years, reducing the overall cost of ownership.
  • Global Service Network: Plastimo has a worldwide network of servicing stations, ensuring access to competent technicians globally.
Training and Innovation
Plastimo ensures that all personnel involved in liferaft servicing receive regular training and maintain constant contact with the company to provide the best service possible.
Conclusion
Plastimo liferafts are designed with the safety of users in mind, offering innovative features and reliable service. The company encourages users to consider the safety of their family, friends, and crew, emphasizing that maritime safety should be as comprehensive as automotive safety.
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10 reasons for a platisimo life raft-1

PLASTIMO UFERAFT ON BOARD Because the sea is capable of the best but also of the worst, because the sea is unpredictable, your safety cannot be a question of optional extras and compromise solutions : your safety must be complete. This is our philosophy at Plastimo, and that's The "tube-within-a-tube" construction, very much like a tyre construction, consists of a polyurethane inner chamber, within a PVC coated polyester outer shell. This construction allows : - to take advantage of the very best features of every material : offering extreme resistance outside, and perfect airtightness - to reduce the cost of servicing : the outer shell is closed by a heavyduty nylon zipper, which allows for easy access, should the inner chamber need to be removed for - to repair more easily at sea, especially if the damage is situated under the water line. For additional safety, our liferafts are equipped with large deep ballast pockets, to improve the stability of the liferaft and prevent drifting. This ballast system keeps the liferaft stable in rough waters : anticapsizing forces standard water pockets). In all Plastimo liferafts, the survival equipment is packed in a watertight pouch that is secured inside the raft; whatever the conditions, the equipment will always be close at hand, and also visible through the transparent pouch. was the first to answer your * Starting on date of purchase. 6.Should your liferaft save your life this year as a consequence of shipwreck/ we will service your raft free of charge or, if necessary replace it We are anxious to know you : learning from your own experience enables us to keep innovating and remain The Safety Specialist. technological skills that we offer you the possibility to service your liferaft only every 3 years*, i.e. 3 servicing sessions over the 12-year warranty period. This is another Plastimo innovation, with direct consequence on your "liferaft budget". * For boats sailing in Europe, and subject to your national regulation. 8.Every person in charge of liferaft servicing attends regular training sessions in our factory and is constantly We check regularly on our servicing stations, in order to ensure that they offer you V.Whatever your navigation pro- gramme, you will find a station to service your liferaft, anywhere in the We have exported for many years all over the world. Wherever you are, you will find competent technicians to assist you. Please refer 10 . For you, your family, your friends, and all your crew members. In case you would need a 1 Oth reason, why not think of your family and friends, your crew members and... think of Yourself I Now liât a majority of cars are equipped with ABS, Airbag, flameproof seats, etc., you cannot put up^ith less safety in your boat than you do

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