JIM BUOY Glass Reinforced Surface Life Float, with Net Platform Buoyant Apparatus offers a tough resilient vinyl surface that is easily boarded. Comfortable in water with no hard surfaces.Lightweight yet easily exceed the most severe USCG testsNo exposed metal hardware - all beckets secured inside the float bodyDouble webbing, sunlight or weather never reaches the supporting becketsSolid closed cell plastic throughout, bullet holes would have only minimal effect on buoyancyGlass reinforced surface has a fiberglass skin which produces a tougher yet slightly resilient surface