Life raft - Life raft

Japanese: 救命いかだ - きゅうめいいかだ
Life raft - Life raft


[Life-saving equipment on board]
Life-saving equipment on a ship can be broadly divided into three categories: lifesaving appliances, signaling devices, and launching devices. Of these, lifesaving appliances are the basic tools for protecting human lives, and include lifeboats and life rafts for group use, and life jackets for individual use. Life jackets, also called life jackets, come in a variety of styles, including those made of buoyant materials such as kapok and those that inflate with gas, and also in a variety of shapes, including pillow-shaped, vest-shaped, and neck-hanging types.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "life rafts" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:


[船の救命設備]
 船の救命設備は,救命器具,信号装置および進水装置の3種類に大別される。このうち救命器具が人命を守る基本的な道具であり,これには集団で使用する救命艇や救命いかだなどと,個人ごとに使用する救命胴衣などとがある。救命胴衣はライフジャケットlife jacketとも呼ばれ,カポックなどの浮力材を用いたものやガスによる膨張式など種々の形式があり,形状も枕状,チョッキ型,首にかける型などさまざまである。…

※「救命いかだ」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

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