Instruction manual

PROFICIENCY IN SURVIVAL CRAFT AND RESCUE BOATS OTHER THAN
FAST RESCUE BOATS
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f) The container must be marked with:
(a) maker's name or trade mark;
(b) serial number;
(c) name of approving authority and the number of persons it is
permitted to carry;
(d) SOLAS;
(e) type of emergency pack enclosed;
(f) date when last serviced;
(g) length of painter;
(h) maximum permitted height of stowage above water-line
(depending on drop-test height and length of painter);
(i) launching instructions.
g) Markings on inflatable life-rafts
A life-raft must be marked with:
(a) maker's name or trade mark;
(b) serial number;
(c) date of manufacture (month and year);
(d) name of approving authority;
(e) name and place of servicing station where it was last serviced.
Such marking is to be placed on a buoyancy tube inside the raft adjacent to a
doorway;
(f) number of persons it is permitted to accommodate over each
entrance in characters not less than 100 millimeters in height of a color
contrasting with that of the life-raft;
(g) name and port of registry of the ship to which it is to be fitted, in
such a form that the ship identification can be changed at any time without
opening the container.
2 retro-reflective tapes not less than 50 millimeters wide must be placed
on the underside of the floor of an inflatable life-raft in such a way that the tapes
form a cross at the centre of the floor :
(a) in the case of a circular inflatable life-raft of a length that is not
less than half the diameter of the life-raft; or
(b) in the case of any other inflatable life-raft of lengths that are not
less than half the length and width, respectively, of the life-raft.