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Maritime & Shipping vocabulary · Safety & Emergencies

Life jacket

Meaning in maritime & shipping, with examples

nounCore term

In maritime & shipping, life jacket means: A jacket filled with buoyant material, or inflated with gas, that keeps a person floating face up in the water.

In Turkish: can yeleği

How it is used

Also written 'lifejacket' and called a 'life vest' in American English. Each person has one in the cabin, extra life jackets are kept on the bridge and in the engine room, and crew wear them at drills and when working near the ship's side.

Example sentences

  1. Put on your life jacket and go to your muster station.

  2. Two life jackets in the forward store had damaged lights and were replaced.

Common collocations

  • put on a life jacket
  • inflatable life jacket
  • life jacket light
  • don a life jacket
  • muster stationA fixed place on a ship where crew and passengers gather when the alarm sounds, so that everyone can be counted and given instructions.
  • man overboardA person who has fallen from a ship into the sea, and the alarm and emergency procedure that follow. It is shortened to MOB.
  • abandon shipTo leave a ship in an emergency because staying on board has become more dangerous than going into the survival craft. The order to abandon ship is given only by the master.
  • liferaftAn inflatable raft, packed in a hard container on deck, that opens and fills with gas when it is thrown into the water or floats free from a sinking ship.

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