About this product
Vest Life Safety Jacket – in stock at 361 Degrees Adventure in Tanzania.
This is a buoyancy vest: a foam-filled jacket that keeps a conscious person afloat. It is the right thing for a dhow trip to Bongoyo, for fishing off a small boat, for anyone on the water who is not a strong swimmer, and for children old enough to fit it.
Fit is what makes a life jacket work, and the three buckles are how you get it. Do them all up and pull the straps in until the jacket is firm against the body. Then take hold of the shoulders and pull up hard: if the vest slides up towards your ears, it is too loose, and in the water it will float up over your face rather than holding you up by the chest. That test takes five seconds and is the difference between a jacket that works and one that does not.
The colour matters more than people think. Searching for a person in the water is extraordinarily difficult – a head in chop is invisible at a surprisingly short distance. High-visibility orange is what gets seen, from a boat, from the shore, and from the air. Keep the whistle where you can reach it with the jacket on.
Be clear about what this is. A buoyancy vest keeps a conscious person afloat and helps them stay that way. It is not a SOLAS lifejacket with a collar designed to turn an unconscious person face-up, and it is not a substitute for staying inside your ability. Wear it before you leave the shore rather than keeping it under a seat – almost nobody who ends up in the water unexpectedly has time to put one on.
Buying a Vest Life Safety Jacket in Tanzania
361 Degrees Adventure keeps the vest life safety jacket at our showroom in Upanga, Dar es Salaam, with delivery countrywide across Tanzania. Come and handle it before you buy, or order online and collect.
Every vest life safety jacket is checked in store before it leaves us, and our staff use the same kit in the field, so you get an honest answer on fit and sizing rather than a sales pitch.
Not sure which vest life safety jacket suits you? Call or message the showroom and we will talk you through the options that are actually in stock in Dar es Salaam.
Spare parts and replacements for the vest life safety jacket are easier to get here than on an overseas order, which matters once the gear is in use.
Pricing on the vest life safety jacket is quoted in Tanzanian shillings, VAT included, so the figure you see is the figure you pay at the counter in Dar es Salaam.
Browse more Safety Equipment in Dar es Salaam, or see the full 361 Degrees range. For general background on personal flotation devices, see this overview on Wikipedia.
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