Instruction manual

PROFICIENCY IN SURVIVAL CRAFT AND RESCUE BOATS OTHER THAN
FAST RESCUE BOATS
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3.1.2 Abandon ship – immediate action
- Sound the general emergency signal and make announcements
instructing all personnel to proceed to their lifeboat muster stations;
- Initiate vessel shutdown procedures;
- Send a «Mayday» signal with the vessel’s position on 2182 KHz
and VHF channel 16 (156.8 KHz) and INMARSAT (where applicable);
- Collect, secure ship log books and documents and ensure that
there are safely transferred in the boats;
- Ensure that the two on board SART’s and EPIRB are carried to
the muster stations;
- Carry out a muster of personnel against the lifeboat checklist
reporting the names of any missing personnel to the bridge;
- Give the final order to embark all personnel into the lifeboat and to
abandon ship;
- Prepare the lifeboat and then lower it to the embarkation position;
- Vacate the bridge and board the lifeboat;
- When ordered by the Master, embark the lifeboat;
- Immediately after the lifeboat is waterborne, and everybody has
embarked, move away from the vessel.
3.1.3 Manning of survival craft and supervision
Regulation 10 (1974, SOLAS Convention)
There shall be a sufficient number of trained persons on board for
mustering and assisting untrained persons.
There shall be a sufficient number of crew members, who may be
deck officers or certificated persons, on board for operating the survival craft
and launching arrangements required for abandonment by the total number
of persons on board.
A deck officer or certificated person shall be placed in charge of each
survival craft to be used. However, the Administration, having due regard to
the nature of the voyage, the number of persons on board and the
characteristics of the ship, may permit persons practised in the handling and
operation of liferafts to be placed in charge of liferafts in lieu of persons
qualified as above.
A second-in-command shall also be nominated in the case of lifeboats.
The person in charge of the survival craft shall have a list of the
survival craft crew and shall see that the crew under his command are
acquainted with their duties. In lifeboats the second-in-command shall also
have a list of the lifeboat crew.
Every motorized survival craft shall have a person assigned who is
capable of operating the engine and carrying out minor adjustments.