Looks good so far, that flare-boom needs a huge flame.

Have you ever seen how these lifeboats are launched (well they just drop em in the water under an angle), rather impressive i must say.

Bryster, the controls are at the back of the lifeboat, when launched almost the entire boat disappears underwater and pops up again (sometimes these boats have to make a drop of 20 meters or more, that's being dropped from the 5th floor), only the back of the boat stays above water during launch.

Basically it is a rescue method using a big red button saying "Get our arse out of here" and away you are. No other means of rescue gets you faster of an oil-rig than these boats. And with the Piper-alpha disaster (but there are more, Alexander Kielland for example) we know how fast things go wrong on an oil-rig, usually you have a few minutes at the most when it goes wrong.

Robert van der Veeke Basugasubasubasu Basugasubakuhaku Gasubakuhakuhaku!! "Better is the enemy of good enough." Dr. Mikoyan of the Mikoyan Gurevich Design Bureau.