8.1.1 Life-saving appliances and arrangements
shall enable abandonment of the craft in accordance with the requirements
of 4.7 and 4.8.
8.1.2 Except where otherwise provided in this
Code, the life-saving appliances and arrangements required by this
chapter shall meet the detailed specifications set out in chapter III of the Convention and the LSA Code and be approved by the Administration.
8.1.3 Before giving approval to life-saving appliances
and arrangements, the Administration shall ensure that such life-saving
appliances and arrangements:
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.1 are tested to confirm that they comply with
the requirements of this chapter, in accordance with the recommendations
of the Organization;footnoteor
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.2 have successfully undergone, to the satisfaction
of the Administration, tests which are substantially equivalent to
those specified in those recommendations.
8.1.4 Before giving approval to novel life-saving
appliances or arrangements, the Administration shall ensure that such
appliances or arrangements:
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.1 provide safety standards at least equivalent
to the requirements of this chapter and have been evaluated and tested
in accordance with the recommendations of the Organization;footnoteor
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.2 have successfully undergone, to the satisfaction
of the Administration, evaluation and tests which are substantially
equivalent to those recommendations.
8.1.5 Before accepting life-saving appliances
and arrangements that have not been previously approved by the Administration,
the Administration shall be satisfied that life-saving appliances
and arrangements comply with the requirements of this chapter.
8.1.6 Except where otherwise provided in this
Code, life-saving appliances required by this chapter for which detailed
specifications are not included in the LSA Code shall be to the satisfaction
of the Administration.
8.1.7 The Administration shall require life-saving
appliances to be subjected to such production tests as are necessary
to ensure that the life-saving appliances are manufactured to the
same standard as the approved prototype.
8.1.8 Procedures adopted by the Administration
for approval shall also include the conditions whereby approval would
continue or would be withdrawn.
8.1.9 The Administration shall determine the period
of acceptability of life-saving appliances which are subject to deterioration
with age. Such life-saving appliances shall be marked with a means
for determining their age or the date by which they shall be replaced.
8.1.10 For the purposes of this chapter, unless
expressly provided otherwise:
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Detection is the determination
of the location of survivors or survival craft.
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Embarkation ladder is the ladder
provided at survival craft embarkation stations to permit safe access
to survival craft after launching.
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Embarkation station is the place
from which a survival craft is boarded. An embarkation station may
also serve as an assembly station, provided there is sufficient room,
and the assembly station activities can safely take place there.
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Float-free launching is that method
of launching a survival craft whereby the craft is automatically released
from a sinking craft and is ready for use.
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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.
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Immersion suit is a protective
suit which reduces the body heat-loss of a person wearing it in cold
water.
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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.
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Inflated appliance is an appliance
which depends upon non-rigid, gas-filled chambers for buoyancy and
which is normally kept inflated and ready for use at all times.
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Launching appliance or arrangement is
a means of transferring a survival craft or rescue boat from its stowed
position safely to the water.
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Marine evacuation system (MES) is
an appliance designed to rapidly transfer a large number of persons
from an embarkation station by means of a passage to a floating platform
for subsequent embarkation into associated survival craft or directly
into associated survival craft.footnote
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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 but which provides
an equal or higher standard of safety.
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Rescue boat is a boat designed
to assist and rescue persons in distress and to marshal survival craft.
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Retrieval is the safe recovery
of survivors.
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Retro-reflective material is
a material which reflects in the opposite direction a beam of light
directed on it.
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Survival craft is a craft capable
of sustaining the lives of persons in distress from the time of abandoning
the craft.
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Thermal protective aid is a bag
or suit of waterproof material with low thermal conductance.