In article , Larry
wrote:

I've never figured out why yachts don't HAVE airbags that deploy
automatically and fill the cabin from the gas canisters when the
switch on the inside of the cabin overhead touches
seawater.....making them unsinkable!

There was such a company, but they've gone belly up. Don't know why, but
suspect that most boats that would have such a system also have a
liferaft of appropriate size. Some decks aren't very well attached to
the hull.

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Jere Lull
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