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An escape chute is a special kind of emergency exit, used where conventional fire escape stairways are impractical. The chute is a fabric (or occasionally metal) tube installed near a special exit on an upper floor or roof of a building, or a tall structure.
Marine escape chute on MV Spirit of Vancouver Island on 9 September 2013. A marine evacuation system (MES) is a lifesaving device found on many modern passenger ships or oil rigs consisting of an inflatable slide or escape chute where a passenger can evacuate straight into waiting life rafts.
This escape tube could be rapidly deployed from a window and hung down to street level, though it was large and bulky to store inside the building. [1] A modern type of evacuation slide is the vertical spiral escape chute, which is a common means of evacuation for buildings and other structures.
Chute (gravity), a channel down which falling materials are guided; Chute (landform), a steep-sided passage through which water flows rapidly; Escape chute, an emergency exit utilized where conventional fire escapes are impractical; Mail chute, a letter collection device
A chute, also known as a race, flume, cat, or river canyon, is a steep-sided passage through which water flows rapidly. Akin to these, man-made chutes, such as the timber slide and log flume, were used in the logging industry to facilitate the downstream transportation of timber along rivers.
Evacuation slide used in an emergency drill. An evacuation slide is an inflatable slide used to evacuate an aircraft quickly. An escape slide is required on all commercial (passenger carrying) aircraft where the door sill height is such that, in the event of an evacuation, passengers would be unable to step down from the door uninjured (Federal Aviation Administration requires slides on all ...
A turtle excluder device (TED) is a specialized device that allows a captured sea turtle to escape when caught in a fisherman's net. In particular, sea turtles can be caught when bottom trawling is used by the commercial shrimp fishing industry. In order to catch shrimp, a fine meshed trawl net is needed.
Flight initiation distance (FID) buffer from critical wildlife area. [1] [2]The flight zone of an animal is the area surrounding an animal that if encroached upon by a potential predator or threat, including humans, will cause alarm and escape behavior.