Learning on ScreenAll At Sea: Sea Chute
Series
- Series Name
- Living Tomorrow
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 4 / 6
- Summary
- COI Synopis - In this programme, we look at what the sea can offer us in terms of energy, food and minerals. It also examines its awesome power and offers some solutions for safety at sea. How do you evacuate passengers from a stricken ship to the safety of life-rafts in less than thirty minutes? The answer is a chute which comes in a pre-packed cannister. Pulling a lanyard, simultaneously releases it, and fills the slide and platform on which it floats, with high-pressure nitrogen. The life-rafts, which are attached to the platform, are released in similar fashion, blossoming out of their cannisters to complete the system which can be ready for use in six minutes.
- Keywords
- Ships and boats; Science and technology; Safety devices; Emergency services; Accidents and disasters
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 55 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/308
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Cutter
- R.I. Phillips
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Film Archive
- Name
- British Film Institute (BFI)
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London W1T 1LN - Notes
- 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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