Patent ID: 8156885

Claim:
An emergency seating system comprising: a boat having a hull having a bottom side; and a plurality of chair assemblies, each of said chair members being embedded into said bottom side, each of said chair assemblies being positionable in a stored position being approximately flush with said bottom side or in a deployed position extending outwardly away from said bottom side, wherein each of said chair assemblies includes; a chamber extending into said bottom side, said chamber including a bottom wall and a perimeter wall being attached to and extending between said bottom wall and said bottom side of said hull; a seat being mounted to said chamber, said seat having an upper side, a lower side, a front edge and a back edge; a backrest being pivotally coupled to said seat adjacent to said back edge, said backrest being foldable into said stored position lying on and abutting said upper side or into said deployed position extending upwardly from said seat.