Testing a Free Fall Lifeboat
 

https://twitter.com/MachinePix/statu...851585/photo/1

The comments are as good as the picture.

Full video.

Ah so, that is why they always send women and children first :1orglaugh

I died :1orglaugh

its a good idea...the completely eliminate any need to any complicated winches and ropes and crap with lowering the boat during a heavy storm...they just pull the release trigger and the thing slides in to the water and uses its shape to dampen the impact of the landing and flip itself upright...