RECALLING Article 15(j) of the Convention on the International
Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Assembly in
relation to regulations and guidelines concerning maritime safety,
NOTING regulation III/38.5.1.22 and III/38.5.1.23 of the International Convention
for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974, as amended, concerning instructions
on how to survive and instructions for immediate action in liferafts,
regulation III/41.8.4 concerning carriage
of survival manual in lifeboats and regulation III/51.15 concerning
the requirements to explain, in the training manual, the best use
of survival craft facilities in order to survive,
HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation made by the Maritime
Safety Committee at its fifty-seventh session,
1. ADOPTS the Liferaft Survival Instructions set
out in Annex 1 to the present resolution;
2. ADOPTS ALSO the list of contents for the lifeboat
survival instructions or manual set out in Annex 2 to the present
resolution;
3. INVITES Contracting Governments to the International
Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974, as amended, to include
in the normal equipment of every liferaft and the in the training
manual the Liferaft Survival Instructions set out in Annex 1 to the
present resolution, and to include in every lifeboat and in the training
manual, lifeboat survival instructions based on the list of contents
set out in Annex 2 to the present resolution;
4. REVOKES resolutions A.181(VI) and A.216(VII).