Instruction manual

PROFICIENCY IN SURVIVAL CRAFT AND RESCUE BOATS OTHER THAN FAST
RESCUE BOATS
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and provisions to sustain life comfortably. Use the supplies in the survival craft with
care-they may have to last a while.
2.3.4 Crew duties to passengers & launching survival craft
- summoning of passengers to muster stations with the alarm required
announcement on the public address or other communication system and ensuring
that they are made aware of the order to abandon ship;
- reporting to stations and preparing for the duties described in the muster
list;
- checking that passengers are suitably dressed;
- checking that lifejackets are correctly donned;
- lowering survival craft after any necessary preparation for launching;
- starting and operating the lifeboat engine;
- a search and rescue of passengers trapped in their staterooms.
Preparation and handling of survival craft at any one launching station shall
not interfere with the prompt preparation and handling of any other survival craft or
rescue boat at any other station.
During preparation and launching, each survival craft, its launching
appliance, and the area of water into which it is to be launched shall be adequately
illuminated by lighting supplied from the emergency source of electrical power.
2.3.5 Lowered of survival craft at embarkation deck or sea level and deployed
of the marine evacuation system
The order to lowering of survival craft or to deploy the marine evacuation
system will be done ONLY by master or his deputy.
2.3.6 Radio equipment and other aids to attract attention
As per muster list duties, the radio equipment as two way VHF
radiotelephone apparatus, Search and Rescue Transponder (SART), Emergency
Position Indicating Radiobeacon (EPIRB), pyrotechnics, torch, whistle, orange cover
or canopy, daylight signalling mirror, must be taken into the survival craft.