While all the fancy new electronics and accessories are fun additions to any watercraft, everyone needs one critical accessory — a life jacket. Unfortunately, many people disregard the importance of a ...

Enjoy a family day out at the beach safely by making sure your kids top their wetsuits with a proper fitting life jacket or buoyancy aid. The devices are ideal for water based activities with kids’ ...

Courtesy Water Safety Foundation The Coast Guard categorizes life jackets by performance Type and/or performance Level. The ...

His garage is filled with dive gear – tanks, buoyancy jackets, and scooters that can propel divers at high speed through the water. He’s also kept mementos from previous dives - a rusted ...

The ability of the creatures of the sea to float is usually taken for granted, but to keep from sinking they must either keep swimming or be equipped with special flotation devices ...

The Stearns Puddle Jumper is part life jacket, part water wings ... They offer a bit of buoyancy, allow you to accelerate quickly, and seem to mold to your feet. It’s the closest you’ll ...

In this installment of Hot Science we present three questions that may help you to better understand buoyancy. The first is a kind of warm-up question, dealing with general buoyancy principles.

Read on to see the forces at work in keeping types of boats on the water instead underneath it. Displacement, Buoyancy, and the Archimedes Principle The first two principles that play a part in boats ...

Through her program, everyone starts lessons wearing a life jacket. “It’s a very simple technique ... “We’re trying to ...

Eventually he said he fell asleep in his buoyancy jacket with his head resting on the board. At about 21:00 BST he was found by a lifeboat crew 3.6 miles (5.8km) east of Old Harry Rocks.

They concluded that Rose and Jack could have both stayed afloat and avoided hypothermia, but only if they had thought to tie her life jacket underneath it to help with buoyancy. That’s missing the ...