Pictures on Seasafe’s rogues galleryshows the sorry state of some of the lifejackets the company has come across. They are quite disturbing.

That said, the attention paid to lifesaving equipment of all kinds is often not what it should be, from lifejackets to survival suits to lifeboats and liferafts.

Might be a good idea to check yours.

Our servicing department has found a lot of lifejackets in shocking conditions, click on the photos below to open them bigger and see the shocking Rogues Gallery photos in detail.

You must take care of your life jacket, it is a piece of safety equipment that needs to be maintained. Get your Life Jacket serviced annually, drop it off at a SeaSafe Life Jacket Service Point and your life jacket will be collected, serviced and returned all within 14 working days.

• Neglected lifejackets
• Incorrectly assembled operating mechanisms
• Operating mechansims with pieces missing
• Damaged lungs
• Rips. Tears. Burns
• Expired, out of date jackets
• Rotting, damp and mouldy
• Used and never re-armed jackets
• Loose or detached CO2 Gas bottles
• No automatic firing cap and Manual puller hidden away
• Little fingers using lifejackets as toys
• Even holes created by poppy’s or pin badges being worn!

Servicing costs just £9.95, plus any parts you may need.

Most of the Life Jackets below ‘failed’ the service and we can safely say that most would not have worked.

 
Bottle crooked

 
Stapled webbing

 
Damaged oral tube

 
Old bottles

 
Rusty, corroded bottles

 
Oil on bladder

 
Dirt build up & unpacked

 
Tangled, not loaded or packed

 
Not loaded

 
Damp mould spots

 
Tangled & unpacked

 
Corroded CO2 bottle

 
Corroded CO2 bottle

 
No clip, tangled puller, damp

 
Not packed correctly

 
Not packed correctly

 
Not loaded or packed

 
Not loaded or packed

 
Oral tube cap off

 
Dirty lung, oil & tangled bladder

 
Corroded bottle

 
Corroded bottle

 
Oil on bladder

 
Corroded bottle etc…

 
Corroded bottle

 
Corroded bottle

 
Severely corroded bottle

 
Dirty

 
Dirty

 
Smells of fuel/no serial number

 
Dirty & tangled

 
Taped on HR auto cap

 
Taped on HR auto cap

 
Corroded bottle

 
1 side of bottle corroded

 
1 side of bottle corroded

 
1 side of bottle corroded

 
Tangled, corroded zip

 
Severely corroded CO2 bottle,

 
Severely corroded CO2 bottle

 
Knotted

 
Unprotected autocap

 
Unprotected autocap

 
No autocap

 
Noughts & crosses?

 
Dangerous

 
Dangerous

 
Bladder damaged

 
Broken clip

 
Dirty cover