I’m watching a show that is speaking about ships sinking in storms at the Cape of Good Hope, and evacuating to lifeboats. If seas are so rough that a large ship goes down, how are lifeboats able to stay afloat? Are they able to bob in the waves easier? Or are they just a last ditch option that often capsize but are better than nothing?
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Modern lifeboats are either inflatable (good luck sinking a baloon no matter how bad the waves are) or they are fiberglass, extremely buoyant and enclosed, which means that even if it capsizes due to a wave it will just flip back up. Obviously it would suck to be inside one during rough weather, but they are designed to be hard to sink. They look more like small spacecraft in generic sci-fi shows than wood rowboats.
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