Safety: Turn-Over Boat
Series
- Series Name
- Living Tomorrow
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 4
- Summary
- COI synopsis: Scientific and technological progress is self-defeating unless accompanied by increases in safety. This week, we look at examples of this progress aimed precisely at increasing the most important safety margin of all - human life. Lifeboatmen save lives - at the risk of their own. If this new inshore lifeboat turns over, it can easily be turned back again with a pull on an inflatable bag. And the soaked motor starts immediately! The secret: as the boat inverts, the motor instantly becomes completely water-tight.
- Keywords
- Ships and boats; Science and technology; Safety devices; Emergency services; Engineering; Design
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 52 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/200
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Cutter
- Elizabeth Kozmian
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
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Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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- The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).
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How to cite this record
'Safety: Turn-Over Boat', Living Tomorrow Issue No. 200, 1977. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/325853 (Accessed 19 Jun 2025)