If an infant life vest fails to inflate, what should you do?

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Multiple Choice

If an infant life vest fails to inflate, what should you do?

Explanation:
Infant inflatable life vests are designed with a dual inflation system: a CO2 canister for automatic inflation and a manual backup that you inflate by breath through a red inflation tube. If the automatic system doesn’t inflate, you rely on the manual backup to provide buoyancy. Blowing into the red manual inflation tubes directly fills the vest, restoring the needed buoyancy for the infant. The red tabs that trigger the CO2 canister won’t help in this moment if the system isn’t activating, and using a separate portable canister isn’t applicable to the infant vest. Verifying storage isn’t an immediate fix for a vest that won’t inflate during use.

Infant inflatable life vests are designed with a dual inflation system: a CO2 canister for automatic inflation and a manual backup that you inflate by breath through a red inflation tube. If the automatic system doesn’t inflate, you rely on the manual backup to provide buoyancy. Blowing into the red manual inflation tubes directly fills the vest, restoring the needed buoyancy for the infant. The red tabs that trigger the CO2 canister won’t help in this moment if the system isn’t activating, and using a separate portable canister isn’t applicable to the infant vest. Verifying storage isn’t an immediate fix for a vest that won’t inflate during use.

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