For the purpose of this chapter, unless expressly provided
otherwise:
1
Anti-exposure suit is a protective
suit designed for use by rescue boat crews and marine evacuation system
parties.
2
Certificated person is a person
who holds a certificate of proficiency in survival craft issued under
the authority of, or recognized as valid by, the Administration in
accordance with the requirements of the International Convention on
Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers,
in force; or a person who holds a certificate issued or recognized
by the Administration of a State not a Party to that Convention for
the same purpose as the convention certificate.
3
Detection is the determination
of the location of survivors or survival craft.
4
Embarkation ladder is the ladder
provided at survival craft embarkation stations to permit safe access
to survival craft after launching.
5
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.
6
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.
7
Immersion suit is a protective
suit which reduces the body heat loss of a person wearing it in cold
water.
8
Inflatable appliance is an appliance
which depends upon non-rigid, gas-filled chambers for buoyancy and
which is normally kept uninflated until ready for use.
9
Inflated 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.
10
International Life-Saving Appliance (LSA)
Code (referred to as "the Code" in this chapter) means the
International Life-Saving Appliances (LSA) Code adopted by the Maritime
Safety Committee of the Organization by resolution MSC.48(66), as
it may be amended by the Organization, provided that such amendments
are adopted, brought into force and take effect in accordance with
the provisions of article VIII of the present Convention concerning
the amendment procedures applicable to the annex other than chapter
I.
11
Launching appliance or arrangement is
a means of transferring a survival craft or rescue boat from its stowed
position safely to the water.
12
Length is 96% of the total length
on a waterline at 85% of the least moulded depth measured from the
top of the keel, or the length from the fore-side of the stem to the
axis of the rudder stock on that waterline, if that be greater. In
ships designed with a rake of keel the waterline on which this is
measured shall be parallel to the designed waterline.
13
Lightest sea going condition is
the loading condition with the ship on even keel, without cargo. with
10% stores and fuel remaining and in the case of a passenger ship
with the full number of passengers and crew and their luggage.
14
Marine evacuation system is an
appliance for the rapid transfer of persons from the embarkation deck
of a ship to a floating survival craft.
15
Moulded depth
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.1 The moulded depth is the vertical
distance measured from the top of the keel to the top of the freeboard
deck beam at side. In wood and composite ships the distance is measured
from the lower edge of the keel rabbet. Where the form at the lower
part of the midship section is of a hollow character, or where thick
garboards are fitted, the distance is measured from the point where
the line of the flat of the bottom continued inwards cuts the side
of the keel.
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.2 In ships having rounded gunwales, the moulded
depth shall be measured to the point of intersection of the
moulded lines of the deck and side shell plating, the lines extending
as though the gunwale were of angular design.
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.3 Where the freeboard deck is stepped and the
raised part of the deck extends over the point at which the moulded
depth is to be determined, the moulded depth shall be
measured to a line of reference extending from the lower part of the
deck along a line parallel with the raised part.
16
Novel life-saving appliance or arrangement is
a life-saving appliance or arrangement which embodies new features
not fully covered by the provisions of this chapter or the Code but
which provides an equal or higher standard of safety.
17
Positive stability is the ability
of a craft to return to its original position after the removal of
a heeling moment.
18
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.
19
Rescue boat is a boat designed
to rescue persons in distress and to marshal survival craft.
20
Retrieval is the safe recovery
of survivors.
21
Ro-ro passenger ship means a passenger
ship with ro-ro cargo spaces or special category spaces as defined
in regulation II-2/3.
22
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.
23
Survival craft is a craft capable
of sustaining the lives of persons in distress from the time of abandoning
the ship.
24
Thermal protective aid is a bag
or suit made of waterproof material with low thermal conductance.
25
Requirements for maintenance, thorough examination, operational testing, overhaul and
repair means the Requirements for maintenance, thorough examination, operational
testing, overhaul and repair of lifeboats and rescue boats, launching appliances and
release gear, adopted by the Maritime Safety Committee of the Organization by resolution
MSC.402(96), as may be amended by the Organization, provided that such
amendments are adopted, brought into force and take effect in accordance with the
provisions of article VIII of the present Convention concerning the amendment procedures
applicable to the annex other than chapter I.