Type 1 are offshore life jackets designed to turn an unconscious person face-up in the water, roughly the equivalent of the UK’s 150 or above Type 2 are near-shore life jackets, usually made ...

She explained that life jackets types are one through five, the number can be found within the writing on the inside of the jacket alongside the U.S. Coast Guard approval.Type 1 is an offshore ...

A former section chief of Minami-Sanriku town who lost his colleagues in the twin tragedies thought that a life jacket equipped with a GPS function could help quickly locate people swept offshore ...