Quanto tempo os passageiros podem sobreviver depois de se esconderem no oceano?

Bem, seu cenário é um pouco improvável, porque se a aeronave abandonasse o oceano, eles teriam as jangadas de emergência e os escorregadores para se protegerem em vez de "flutuarem em seus coletes infláveis".

No entanto, se alguém estivesse flutuando no oceano sem qualquer proteção, quanto tempo eles poderiam sobreviver depende de vários fatores. A temperatura é o maior fator no tempo antes de sucumbir à hipotermia.

Dê uma olhada no este gráfico para descobrir a temperatura média de a área em questão. Se passarmos pelas últimas notícias , isso vai estar em algum lugar no bairro de 14C.

Esta página diz que o Tempo Esperado de Sobrevivência é de 1 a 6 horas .

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Maximize your chances of surviving by:

• Wearing a personal flotation device (PFD)
• Adopting a survival position
• Keeping clothing on
• Getting as much of body out of the water as possible
• Remaining still and in place UNLESS a floating object, another person, or the shore is nearby
• Keeping a positive mental outlook (a will to survive really does matter)

Swimming isn't recommended unless there is little chance of being rescued and shore is less than a mile away. Putting on a PFD after falling into cold water is almost impossible – SO WEAR IT. If you find yourself in cold water without a PFD and nothing to climb onto, tread water. Traditional drown-proofing by repeatedly lowering your head into the water and floating speeds up heat loss.

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Bem, as chances de sobrevivência prolongada não são excessivamente generosas, de acordo com os FARs 91.509 e 135.167. Tenha em mente que provavelmente não demoraria tanto para uma aeronave maior antes de perceber que estava faltando.

FARs 135,167:

(a) Except where the Administrator, by amending the operations specifications of the certificate holder, requires the carriage of all or any specific items of the equipment listed below for any overwater operation, or, upon application of the certificate holder, the Administrator allows deviation for a particular extended overwater operation, no person may operate an aircraft in extended overwater operations unless it carries, installed in conspicuously marked locations easily accessible to the occupants if a ditching occurs, the following equipment:

(1) An approved life preserver equipped with an approved survivor locator light for each occupant of the aircraft. The life preserver must be easily accessible to each seated occupant.

(2) Enough approved liferafts of a rated capacity and buoyancy to accommodate the occupants of the aircraft.

(b) Each liferaft required by paragraph (a) of this section must be equipped with or contain at least the following:

(1) One approved survivor locator light.

(2) One approved pyrotechnic signaling device.

(3) Either— (i) One survival kit, appropriately equipped for the route to be flown; or

(ii) One canopy (for sail, sunshade, or rain catcher);

(iii) One radar reflector;

(iv) One liferaft repair kit;

(v) One bailing bucket;

(vi) One signaling mirror;

(vii) One police whistle;

(viii) One raft knife;

(ix) One CO2 bottle for emergency inflation;

(x) One inflation pump;

(xi) Two oars;

(xii) One 75-foot retaining line;

(xiii) One magnetic compass;

(xiv) One dye marker;

(xv) One flashlight having at least two size “D” cells or equivalent;

(xvi) A 2-day supply of emergency food rations supplying at least 1,000 calories per day for each person;

(xvii) For each two persons the raft is rated to carry, two pints of water or one sea water desalting kit;

(xviii) One fishing kit;

(xix) One book on survival appropriate for the area in which the aircraft is operated.

Então eu acho que a resposta é em torno de três ou quatro dias, talvez. Se eles chegassem à galera a bordo dentro de uma hora antes da aeronave ser inundada, eles poderiam ter um pouco mais ...