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Mustang Atlas 190 lifejacket

It’s not very often we get to see innovation in lifejacket design as the rules are so tight for safety coding that there’s little room for changing the status quo in terms of bladder shape, inflation technology and so on, writes Fox Morgan.

Mustang Survival has been a popular brand in Canada and the USA for over 50 years. But the brand is relatively

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