NOUN
- rescue equipment consisting of a buoyant belt or jacket to keep a person from drowning
How To Use flotation device In A Sentence
- However, toy versions of life jackets or flotation devices like "water wings" do fall within the CPSC's jurisdiction.
- This little boy, Arnaud, came swimming at the same time as us, clad in holey tighty-whiteys and clutching and empty plastic jug as a flotation device. Archive 2008-03-01
- Ruth Wallis still has the sauciest inflatable raft song with "He's got the cutest little dinghy in the Navy", but Wenche Myhre wins the "peppiest and pizazziest delivery of a rubber flotation device song" hands DOWN. Archive 2009-03-01
- Polymeric foams have been used for such things as building insulation, flotation devices and furniture cushions.
- According to the Telegraph on January 18, two 19-year-olds tried to use a blow-up doll as a flotation device in the Australian flood waters but failed.
- The fact that it had a built in flotation device made that jacket my best friend. Avoid Hypothermia With a Mustang Survival Jacket
- Children under the age of 10 must wear a specified personal flotation device at all times on any vessel when the vessel is under way and they are in an open area of the vessel.
- The helicopter is fitted with ballonet flotation devices for emergency landing on water.
