8.2.1 Survival craft should be provided in sufficient
quantity to accommodate at least 110 per cent of the total number
of persons the dynamically supported craft is certified to carry,
subject to a minimum total of two such survival craft being carried.
In addition, at least one survival craft suitable for rescuing a person
overboard should be provided if passengers have free access to exposed
decks while the dynamically supported craft is under way and if the
rescue operation cannot be performed with the dynamically supported
craft.
8.2.2 Each survival craft and its life-saving
equipment should be to the satisfaction of the Administration.
8.2.4 Survival craft should be securely stowed
externally to passenger accommodation. The stowage should be such
that each survival craft may be safely launched in a simple manner,
and remain secured to the craft during and subsequent to the launching
procedure. The length of the securing line should be such as to maintain
the survival craft suitably positioned for embarkation.
8.2.5 At the discretion of the Administration,
inflatable survival craft may be stowed with a hydrostatic device,
so arranged as to release and inflate the survival craft from its
container in the event of the dynamically supported craft sinking.
8.2.6 Each survival craft and its equipment should
be stowed in such a manner and position that all such craft may be
launched rapidly without mutual interference.
8.2.7 In the case of inflatable survival craft,
the launching procedure should initiate inflation.
8.2.8 All survival craft should be capable of
being launched in adverse roll and trim attitudes, and for all emergency
conditions.
8.2.9 Periodic servicing of launching appliances
Launching appliances:
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.1 should be serviced at recommended intervals
in accordance with instructions for on-board maintenance as required
by regulation III/36 of the
Convention;
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.2 should be subjected to a thorough examination
at the annual surveys required by paragraph 1.5.1(b); and
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.3 should, upon completion of the examination
in .2, be subjected to a dynamic test of the winch brake at maximum
lowering speed. The load to be applied should be the mass of the survival
craft or rescue boat without persons on board, except that at intervals
not exceeding five years, the test should be carried out with a proof
load equal to 1.1 times the weight of the survival craft or rescue
boat and its full complement of persons and equipment.