Instruction manual

PROFICIENCY IN SURVIVAL CRAFT AND RESCUE BOATS OTHER THAN
FAST RESCUE BOATS
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(e) a safety boat-hook.
The following equipment, or other equally efficient means, must be fitted to
assist the recovery of a lifeboat which is also a rescue boat in bad weather
conditions:
(a) rope pennants attached to the lower fall blocks after launching is
completed to enable the boat to be hung off, the rope pennants removed, and the
lower blocks overhauled and attached to the boat so that it may be hoisted safely
and expeditiously; and
(b) wire pennants attached to the davit heads to enable the boat to be
brought up into its stowed position.
An inflated rescue boat must be so constructed as to be capable of
withstanding exposure:
(a) when stowed on an open deck on a ship at sea; and
(b) for 30 days afloat in all sea conditions.
Inflated rescue boats must be marked with a serial number, the maker's
name or trade mark and the date of manufacture.
The buoyancy of an inflated rescue boat must be provided by either a single
tube subdivided into at least five separate compartments of approximately equal
volume or two separate tubes.
The buoyancy tubes must be so arranged that the intact compartments
must be able to support the number of persons which the rescue boat is
permitted to accommodate, each having a mass of 75 kilograms, when seated in
their normal positions with positive freeboard over the rescue boat's entire
periphery under the following conditions:
(a) with the forward buoyancy compartment deflated;
(b) with the entire buoyancy on one side of the rescue boat deflated;
and
(c) with the entire buoyancy on one side and the bow compartment
deflated.
The buoyancy tubes forming the boundary of an inflated rescue boat must
on inflation provide a volume of not less than 0.17 cubic meters for each person
the rescue boat is permitted to accommodate.
Each buoyancy compartment must be fitted with a non-return valve for
manual inflation and means for deflation. A safety relief valve must also be fitted.
An inflated rescue boat must be maintained at all times in a fully inflated
condition.