Originally Posted by
givemewings
'Slede/raft'. . . . latter are designed to keep you dry and out of the water and are equipped with survival gear.
The round dingies are probably mroe seaworthy, but IMHO having done a ditching drill and deploying them out the o/w exits on a B737, you'd be on the bottom before you got them all away.
Of course the chances of surviving anything open water are low-.
I don't recall seeing any mention of dinghies on civilian aircraft for many years. As you say, deploying and boarding even on a small aircraft like a 737 takes time and in open water . . .