This document has been consolidated into HSC Code
Chapter 8 Life-saving appliances and arrangements
8.10 Survival craft and rescue boats
1 Paragraphs 8.10.1.5 and 8.10.1.6 are replaced with the following:
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".5 notwithstanding the provision of .4 above, craft should carry
sufficient rescue boats to ensure that, in providing for abandonment by
the total number of persons the craft is certified to carry:
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.5.1 not more than nine of the liferafts provided in accordance with
8.10.1.1 are marshalled by each rescue boat; or
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.5.2 if the Administration is satisfied that the rescue boats are capable
of towing a pair of such liferafts simultaneously, not more than 12 of
the liferafts provided in accordance with 8.10.1.1 are marshalled by
each rescue boat; and
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.5.3 the craft can be evacuated within the time specified in 4.8.
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.6 craft of less than 20 m in length may be exempted from carrying a
rescue boat, provided the craft meets all of the following requirements:
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.6.1 the craft is arranged to allow a helpless person to be recovered
from the water in a horizontal or near-horizontal body position;
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.6.2 recovery of the helpless person can be observed from the navigating
bridge; and
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.6.3 the craft is sufficiently manoeuvrable to close in and recover
persons in the worst intended conditions."