Every AllEquipped journal post on Marine Safety — 3 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.
Federal law requires you to carry visual distress signals, requires you to replace them every 42 months, and then goes quiet. Firing them off is a felony, the trash is illegal, and two counties in California will take them.
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.
