Regular servicing ensures your equipment is always ready when you need it

VIKING recommends regular servicing of life-saving equipment to extend the lifetime of your equipment and to ensure that it is in perfect working order when you need it most.

Servicing of VIKING liferafts includes:

Receipt and registration of the liferaft

Opening the container and dismounting of the inflation system

Removal of the liferaft from the container

Container shell is cleaned and fibreglass is repaired if needed

Container is relabelled

Liferaft is inflated with compressed air

Liferaft is pressure tested including a 60 minute working pressure test of the lower buoyancy chamber, upper buoyancy chamber and arch chamber

If the liferaft is equipped with an inflatable floor, this is pressure tested for 30 minutes

CO2 cylinder is checked for correct content level

Release unit, membrane and knife are tested

Exterior inspection of the liferaft

Interior inspection of the liferaft

Emergency pack is checked and items replaced if expired acc. to regulations

Liferaft equipment is inspected and replaced if needed

Liferaft is deflated

Inflation systems and high pressure hoses are tested and re-mounted

Logbook in the liferaft is completed (proof that the liferaft has been opened and tested)

Liferaft is repacked in the container

Servicing certificate is issued

Full documentation for service is archived acc. to regulations

Liferaft is prepared for despatch

Detailed invoice is issued

In addition, the liferaft is tested acc. to international regulations with specific tests that are required at various intervals

Gas inflation stress test (GI) is conducted every 5 years using the liferaft’s own CO2 cylinder to inflate the liferaft

Necessary additional pressure test (NAP) at double the working pressure rate is conducted at 11 years end then annually thereafter

Floor seam test (FS) is used to check the seams below the buoyancy chambers when stressed and is conducted at 10 years and then annually

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