Dead or on the lamb?

[ArMaP]

One other thing I find strangely missing from the story.  Vessels of this length, under charter, are required to carry life rafts equalling 150% of the maximum capacity of the boat.  On this boat, this requirement would have meant multiple life rafts.  Life rafts are mounted on deck in such a way that they automatically inflate when they become bouyant in water (there are also other things which will auto-inflate them, often things like the EPIRB going bouyant).  Why were none of these deployed?

The survivors were on one of the rafts, so at least one was deployed.



If I'm not mistaken, only the cook was found dead outside the ship, the other bodies were found inside it.