Basic Contact

102-2433 Dollarton Hwy,
North Vancouver,
BC, Canada, V7H 0A1,

Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 4:30 pm

(604) 980-7555, toll free 1 866 401 2288 24 Hour emergency

SERVICE INQUIRY

OFFLINE FORM

Download our offline form. You can print it and fill at your home. Then give it to us when dropping off the raft.

OFFLINE FORM

APPROVALS

Vancouver Liferaft & Safety is approved by Transport Canada.

Transport Canada
Viking Life-Saving Equipment

HOW DO WE SERVICE?

Documentation of the service:

- Liferaft is received and registered
- Logbook in the liferaft is completed (proof that the liferaft has been opened and tested)
- Inspection is performed using the VIKING approved inspection checklist
- Certificate of re-inspection is issued
- Full documentation for service is archived according to regulations
- Detailed invoice is issued

  • Container is opened and the inflation system dismounted
  • Liferaft is removed from the container
  • Container shell is cleaned and fibre glass is repaired if needed
  • Container is relabelled
  • Life raft is inspected inside and out
  • Liferaft is inflated with compressed air and pressure tested including a 60 min. working pressure test of the lower buoyancy chamber, upper buoyancy chamber and arch chamber
  • If the life raft is equipped with an inflatable floor, this is pressure tested for 60 min.
  • 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 performed to check the seams of the internal floor and is conducted at 10 years and then annually
  • Emergency pack in checked and items replaced if expired according to regulations
  • Life raft equipment is inspected and replaced if needed
  • Cylinder operating head, valve, knife and release wire is inspected
  • Inflations systems and high pressure hoses are inspected
  • CO2 cylinder is checked for correct content level
  • Life raft is deflated, repacked in the container and prepared for dispatch