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A hug from physics that argues with the ocean on your behalf.
means A wearable buoyant vest designed to keep a person afloat and face-up in water, even if they're unconscious or exhausted.
from A straightforward compound of 'life' and 'jacket,' coined in the 19th century as cork and kapok-filled vests began replacing earlier bulky cork belts and 'life preservers.' The word simply says what it does — a jacket whose job is keeping you alive — though the technology behind it, from cork blocks to inflatable chambers, has a much longer and more inventive history than the plain name lets on.
- real name
- personal flotation device, jacket is the friendly nickname
- the trick
- foam displaces water, water loses the argument
- color choice
- orange exists so rescuers, not fish, notice you
- worst time
- to learn you need it is after you're swimming