During a routine inspection and then follow-up checks of suits in shops, the Coast Guard found 'lack of adhesion of the glue that’s used to fix the zipper assembly to the neoprene part of the suit' in one popular model of survival suit.
MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crews perform a search and rescue demonstration off the back of the Coast Guard Cutter Munro April 15, 2013, in Womens Bay, Kodiak, Alaska.
Survival suits, also called immersion suits, are full-body protective suits that the Coast Guard requires on commercial fishing vessels for sailors to wear in an emergency. The suits have flotation devices and are meant to protect sailors from freezing water as they await rescue. “Inspectors that were out in Bristol Bay a few weeks ago reported finding issues with relatively newly manufactured immersion suits,” Wilwert said. “And what they were finding was an area of what appeared to be a delamination, or a lack of adhesion of the glue that’s used to fix the zipper assembly to the neoprene part of the suit.
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