Rubber Dinghy

The rubber Inflatable boat is fun to have at the beach, swimming pool or camping at the lake. Some inflatable boats have been designed to be disassembled and packed into in a small volume, so they can easily stored and transported to water when needed. Here the boat when inflated is kept rigid crossways by a foldable removable thwart. This feature allows such boats to be used as liferafts for larger boats or aircraft, and for travel or recreational purposes. There are ancient carved images of animal skins filled with air being used as one-man floats to cross rivers. They were inflated by mouth. Sometimes these images have been wrongly described as ancient scuba. Other terms for inflatable boats are "inflatable dinghy", "rubber dinghy", "inflatable" or "rubber duck". Zodiac is a tradename for a make of inflatable boat, but often has become a genericized tradename used to mean any rigid-hulled inflatable boat (RIB).