Self-inflating life rafts – Bfa Marine
Serious risk Drowning
- Product
- Self-inflating life rafts
- Brand
- Bfa Marine
- Brand as notified
- BFA MARINE
- Type / model
- Models: BFA, Baltic, Atlantic, Pacific and XM/BFA OFFSHORE
- Description
- Self-inflating life rafts manufactured between 1997 and 2002 (serial numbers 10001 – 50180) and between 2002 and April 2007 (serial numbers starting with the prefix XDC).
- Risk
- The product poses a serious risk of drowning because the life raft may not inflate when used, owing to a fault:- in the two valves on each of the two compartments, - on the Y-shaped plastic inflating connection. It seemed that the valve fault originated from assembly in a factory using lubricants which allowed tightening beyond the force recommended by the supplier. When over tightened, the overpressure valves can crack, or even break, after a period of time which is difficult to estimate, but which may apparently be shortened as a function of storage temperature. Concerning the Y-connection, a Y-shaped plastic inflation connection is fitted to a small number of life rafts manufactured. The presence of traces of lubricant detected by analysis suggests that the cause of the faults on the Y-connection is the same as in the case of the valves.
- Measures
- Voluntary corrective actions taken by the manufacturer. Press release has been issued
- Notifying country
- France
- Country of origin
- Hungary
- Alert type
- Consumer
- Photos
- Photos shown from the Safety Gate server (European Commission); not copied here.
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