Safety Equipment...don't just tick the box.
It's a cold dark night and we're steaming back to port. It's been a great day, everything went well, satisfied passengers/fishermen/customers/full fish bins/or a job well done. Then in the wheelhouse, an alarm goes off - suddenly everything happens. We go through the system (if there's time) then before we know it, we're preparing to abandon ship. A May Day call is made and that's us ...until someone rescues us. It's times such as this that our safety equipment must be operational. Our life jackets must be serviced and located where they should be. Our flares need to be current and the lifebuoy light must be ready to shine. There's no time for that now. But there is today... (don't just tick the box) June - is the month to check your Safety Equipment list is current and everything is operational.