The Life Jacket allows officers to wear the inflatable life-jacket liner separately, as well as within the jacket, with or without sleeves. The jacket, made of rip-stop nylon, is water-proof ...

The jackets come with automatic/manual or manual-only inflators. The automatic inflators activate when the jacket is immersed in water, and the manual type requires the wearer to pull a lanyard.

An auto-inflatable life jacket will run a couple hundred bucks but adds that extra layer of protection. We recently put a bunch of them through comprehensive testing at our BoatingLAB.

If this sounds like you, check out the Absolute Outdoor Onyx A/M-24 Automatic/Manual Inflatable Life Jacket.

If this sounds like you, check out the Absolute Outdoor Onyx A/M-24 Automatic/Manual Inflatable Life Jacket.

If this sounds like you, check out the Absolute Outdoor Onyx A/M-24 Automatic/Manual Inflatable Life Jacket.

If this sounds like you, check out the Absolute Outdoor Onyx A/M-24 Automatic/Manual Inflatable Life Jacket.

Fortunately, they had purchased a couple of automatic/manual inflatable life jackets, which can be inflated automatically when immersed in water, manually by pulling the cord, or manually by ...

If an automatic inflatable life jacket does not inflate when a wearer goes into the water, all models have a manual alternative. To manually inflate, the wearer pulls the lanyard attached to the ...

Former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman credits an automatic/manual inflatable life vest from Cabela’s with saving his life in a weekend boat crash on a northern Minnesota lake. Coleman was fishing for ...