50 AND CLIMBING – NATIONAL NETWORK OF LIFEJACKET SERVICE CENTRES KEEPS GROWING
22 April 2015 – SeaSafe have just added their 50th lifejacket servicing centre, meaning that most parts of the UK now have one within easy reach. The majority of these ‘Service Points’ are marinas but other organisations have joined the network too including sailing clubs and chandleries.
Whether you have one, two or ten lifejackets that need servicing, SeaSafe have made it really easy – you just drop them into one of the Service Points and SeaSafe arrange collection (using DHL). There are no delivery charges unless they are returned to a non Service Point address. Once received and inspected, SeaSafe contact the lifejacket owner to explain what work needs doing and the cost, with servicing starting at just £9.95.
Jeremy Dale, Managing Director of SeaSafe, comments, “Superficially a lifejacket can look fine and appear in good condition but it could be hiding all kinds of defects. We have had lifejackets back here with heavily corroded CO2 gas bottles, loose or detached gas bottles, lungs that are damaged with rips, tears and holes, used and never re-armed lifejackets, operating mechanisms with missing parts and many other critical problems. It’s why we set up our ‘rogues gallery’ of images on our website showing the appalling condition some lifejackets are in when they come back to us for servicing.
“The key thing to remember is that a lifejacket is only that if it works, and if it’s never been serviced or not regularly serviced then it really isn’t worth taking a chance – better to be safe and not sorry. Our growing nationwide network of lifejacket servicing makes it easy to get the servicing done but even if there isn’t a Service Point nearby we can deal direct, arranging collection and return at a location of the customer’s choice, even their home.”
To locate your nearest Lifejacket Service Point visit: http://www.seasafe.co.uk where you can also see the ‘rogues gallery’ of lifejackets.
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Notes to Editors
First established in 1966, SeaSafe are a British, family owned company specialising in marine safety clothing and marine safety products.
Operating from their own 8,000 sq ft factory in Cowes on the Isle of Wight, they are best known for pioneering the development of the all-in-one foul weather coat with integrated lifejacket – the coat that becomes a lifejacket in less than five seconds. Now the preferred choice for professional seafarers it is worn by more harbour masters and harbour pilots worldwide than any other type of jacket.
SeaSafe today is recognised as ‘the one-stop resource’ for marine safety products for both professional mariners and recreational sailors, with product ranges designed specifically for each sector.
SeaSafe are also now the only British independently owned manufacturer of lifejacket lungs, supplying this core component of lifejackets to other lifejacket brands.
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