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Chapter lll
Life-saving appliances and arrangements
Part A: General
Regulation 1- Application
Specifies ships where regulations are applicable
Regulation 2 – Exemptions
Specifies Exemptions to these regulations
Regulation 3
ONLY IMPORTANT DEFINITIONS ARE COVERED
Definitions
- Anti-exposure suit is a protective suit designed for use by rescue boat crews and marine evacuation system parties.
- Certificated person is a person who holds a certificate of proficiency in survival craft issued by competent authority.
- Detection is the determination of the location of survivors or survival craft.
- Embarkation ladder is the ladder provided at survival craft embarkation stations to permit safe access to survival craft after launching.
- Float free launching is that method of launching a survival craft whereby the craft is automatically released from a sinking ship and is ready for use.
- Free-fall launching is that method of launching a survival craft whereby the craft with its complement of persons and equipment on board is released and allowed to fall into the sea without any restraining apparatus.
- Immersion suit is a protective suit which reduces the body heat loss of a person wearing it in cold water.
- lnflatable appliance is an appliance, which depends upon non-rigid, gas-filled chambers for buoyancy and which is normally kept uninflated until ready for use.
- lnflated appliance is an appliance which depends upon non-rigid, gas-filled chambers for buoyancy and which is kept inflated and ready for use at all times.
- lnternational Life-Saving Appliance (LSA) Code (referred to as “the Code” in this chapter) means the lnternational Life-Saving Appliance (LSA) Code adopted by the Maritime Safety Committee of the Organization (IMO).
- Launching appliance or arrangement is a means of transferring a survival craft or rescue boat from its stowed position safely to the water.
- Marine evacuation system is an appliance for the rapid transfer of persons from the embarkation deck of a ship to a floating survival craft.
- Recovery time for a rescue boat is the time required to raise the boat to a position where persons on board can disembark to the deck of the ship. Recovery time includes the time required to make preparations for recovery on board the rescue boat such as passing and securing a painter, connecting the rescue boat to the launching appliance, and the time to raise the rescue boat. Recovery time does not include the time needed to lower the launching appliance into position to recover the rescue boat.
- Rescue boat is a boat designed to rescue persons in distress and to marshal survival craft.
- Retrieval is the safe recovery of survivors.
- Ro-Ro passenger ship means a passenger ship with ro-ro cargo spaces or special category spaces as defined in regulation ll-2l3.
- Short international voyage is an international voyage in the course of which a ship is not more than 200 miles from a port or place in which the passengers and crew could be placed in safety. Neither the distance between the last port of call in the country in which the voyage begins and the final port of destination nor the return voyage shall exceed 600 miles. The final port of destination is the last port of call in the scheduled voyage at which the ship commences its return voyage to the country in which the voyage began.
- Survival craft is a craft capable of sustaining the lives of persons in distress from the time of abandoning the ship.
- Thermal protective aid is a bag or suit made of waterproof material with low thermal conductance.
Regulation 4
Evaluation, testing and approval of life-saving appliances and arrangements
Regulation 5
Production Tests
Regulation 6 to 37 are covered in tabular format.