Life Vest
How do i buy a life vest?
I need a life vest to go on a row boat on a lake... how do i find the right one... i have no idea how to buy one? i'm 5'2" and weight 150lbs
When selecting a PFD, choose the right one for you, your planned activities, and the water conditions you expect to encounter. Consider where you will be boating and what kinds of boating you will be doing. You may in fact need more than one PFD. No matter which PFD you choose, be sure to get one that is right for you, and make certain that it is U.S. Coast Guard approved for a person of your size and weight.
Type 1 - Also known as an offshore lifejacket
Type II - Also known as a near-shore lifejacket
You will probably want a Type III PFD, Also known as a flotation aid, Type III personal flotation devices are intended for calm, inland waterways and circumstances when prompt rescue are likely. Type III PFDs are designed to offer maximum comfort and freedom of movement (i.e. watersport jackets and vests), but require users to place themselves in a face-up breathing position in the water. Provides the same minimum buoyancy as Type II PFDs.
When selecting a PFD, size is very important. It must fit properly to work properly, so you must make sure PFDs are the right size for the individuals who will wear them. The U.S. Coast Guard weight guidelines are:
Infant (0-30 pounds)
Child (30-50 pounds)
Youth (50-90 pounds)
Adult (over 90 pounds)
While determining correct fit, it is also important to consider comfort. A personal flotation device should be sufficiently snug to prevent the user from slipping down, but if it is too tight it will be uncomfortable and will likely be removed. Follow the adult sizing guidelines for each product to find the PFD best suited to your body type.
Two London exhibitions, the Serpentine Gallery's Indian Highway and Aicon's Signs Taken for Wonders, are the UK's most ambitious attempts yet to distill coherence into the chaotic rush of art emerging from the Indian subcontinent.
The marriage between the conceptually minded Serpentine and Indian art – whose overriding characteristics are narrative drive, flamboyant figuration and sensuous colour – is interesting because it is so unlikely. Recent memorable Indian installations have been sprawling, direct and often rooted in the animal motifs of folklore: Bharti Kher's "The Skin Speaks a Language Not Its Own", a collapsed fibreglass elephant adorned with bindis (female forehead decorations) at Frank Cohen's Passage to India, or Sudarshan Shetty's bell-tolling aluminium cast of a pair of cows, now at the Royal Academy's GSK Contemporary. Nothing like that is in Indian Highway; with conceptual aplomb, the Serpentine turns the accessibility and energy of Indian art into a taut cerebral game.
The highway of the title refers both to the literal road of migration and movement, and to the information superhighway, which together are propelling India to modernity. Dayanita Singh's wallpaper-photographs of Mumbai's central arteries illuminated at night introduce the theme in the first contemporary art gallery, and a crowd of sober documentary films worthily continue it – but a pair of installations catch the symbolism best. One is Bose Krishnamachari's celebrated "Ghost/Transmemoir", a collection of a hundred tiffin boxes – widely used to convey home-cooked lunches to workers across cities – each inset with LCD monitors, DVD players and headphones, through which everyday Mumbaikars regale audiences with their stories, accompanied by soundtracks evoking the high-pitched jangle and screech of Mumbai street life.
The other, towering upwards to the North art gallery's dome like a beating black heart at the core of the show, is Sheela Gowda's "Darkroom", consisting of metal tar-drums stacked or flattened into wrap-around sheets, evoking at once the grandeur of classical colonnades and the ad hoc shacks built by India's road workers. Inside, the darkness is broken by tiny dots of light through holes punctured in the ceiling like a constellation of stars; yellow-gold paint enhances the lyric undertow in this harsh readymade.
Opposite is N S Harsha's "Reversed Gaze", a mural depicting a crowd behind a makeshift barricade who tilt out towards us – making us the spectacles at the exhibition. All Indian life is here in this comic whimsy: farmer, businessman, fundamentalist Hindu, anarchist with firebomb, pamphleteer, aristocrat in Nehruvian dress, south Indian in baggy trousers and vest, tourist clutching a miniature Taj Mahal, and an art collector holding a painting signed R Mutt – linking the entire parade to the urinal, signed R Mutt, with which Marcel Duchamp invented conceptual art in 1917.
Essential to the meaning of "Reversed Gaze" is that it will be erased when the exhibition closes – a slap in the face for the predatory art market. So will the pink and purple bindi wall painting "The Nemesis of Nations" by Bharti Kher, who recently joined expensive international gallery Hauser and Wirth. And a canvas of drawings greeting visitors as they enter is all that is left of Nikhil Chopra's performance piece "Yog Raj Chitrakar", in which the artist this week spent three days assuming the persona of his grandfather, an immaculately dressed gentleman of the Raj, and lived and slept in a tent in Kensington Gardens, entering the gallery only to daub the canvas that stands as an art of aftermath – a memory drawing.
Painting here is a vanishing act. Maqbool Fida Husain (aged 93) has made 13 bright poster-style works – red elephants, a tea ceremony after a tiger shooting, a satirical Last Supper with dapper businessman, umbrella, briefcase, body parts – to surround the exterior of the Serpentine. MF Husain is India's most respected artist; with these billboards, executed in his standard style of forceful black contours, angular lines and bright palette, he returns to his career origins as a painter of cinema advertisements.
In the catalogue, curator Ranjit Hoskote argues that "transcultural experience is the only certain basis of contemporary practice" and that "the chimera of auto-Orientalism, with its valorisation of a spurious authenticity to be secured as the guarantee of an embattled local against an overwhelming global, has been swept away".
But Husain, godfather to generations of Indian artists, and indeed every piece in Indian Highway – from feminist painter Nalini Malani's looping fantasy figures intricately inked on bamboo paper in "Tales of Good and Evil" to Jitish Kallat's photographic series "Cenotaph (A Deed of Transfer)", chronicling the demolition of slum dwellings – proves the opposite: however hard a western gallery tries to make Indian contemporary art, talk a global conceptual language, its local strengths speak louder. Indian art, on this showing, is visually arresting and thoughtful, but nothing here is formally or conceptually innovative, or aesthetically provocative. We thus respond to its distinctive idiom and themes as cultural tourists.
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