Every AllEquipped journal post on Inspection — 7 write-ups on the gear, the standards behind it and what the labels actually mean.
The space under a swim platform can hold six times the concentration that's immediately dangerous to life. A compliant marine CO alarm may take fifteen minutes to sound at a fraction of that. Both facts are true, and together they explain who the detector actually protects.
An inflatable PFD is the one piece of life-saving equipment aboard with consumable parts. It also sits outside the CPSC's jurisdiction, so there is no public recall database — which makes a manufacturer's own advisory archive the only systematic record that exists.
One maker recalled 150 units after zero incidents. Another offered a better carrying case after a death. A third refunded at 130% of retail. Same industry, same decade — and for occupational PPE in the US, none of them had to tell you anything.
A Class 2 SRL is qualified by being dropped over a steel edge with a radius of five thousandths of an inch. That single test explains the lifeline, the anchor rules, and why foot-level work needs roughly double the clearance.
Wet nylon loses about 10–15% of its tensile strength and up to 70% of its dynamic fall capacity. Those aren't the same claim. Sterling's HTP Static is built entirely from the fiber that sidesteps the problem.
A worn carabiner is dangerous long before it's weak. The realistic risk isn't that it breaks under load — it's that it cuts the rope running over it. Edelrid's answer is a steel insert where the wear actually happens.
A mobile fall arrester is useless without its energy absorber, and Petzl runs three generations of both. Same-generation pairs are certified. Some mixed pairs are merely approved. The rest were never tested at all.
