Appendix 2 - Frequency of NAP Tests: Working Pressure (WP), Gas Inflation (GI) and Floor Seam Strength (FS)
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Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Resolutions - Assembly - IMO Resolution A.761(18) – Recommendation on Conditions for the Approval of Servicing Stations for Inflatable Liferafts – (Adopted on 4 November 1993)Amended by Resolution MSC.55(66)Amended by Resolution MSC.388(94) - Annex - Recommendation on Conditions for the Approval of Servicing Stations for Inflatable Liferafts - Appendix 2 - Frequency of NAP Tests: Working Pressure (WP), Gas Inflation (GI) and Floor Seam Strength (FS)

Appendix 2 - Frequency of NAP Tests: Working Pressure (WP), Gas Inflation (GI) and Floor Seam Strength (FS)

Table 1 Frequency of NAP tests: working pressure (WP), gas inflation (GI) and floor seam strength (FS)

  Servicing Intervals Test Method
  End of first year WP test
  End of second year WP test
  End of third year WP test
  End of fourth year WP test
  End of fifth year GI test
  End of sixth year WP test
  End of seventh year WP test
  End of eighth year WP test
  End of ninth year WP test
  End of tenth year GI test + FS
  Eleventh to fourteenth year NAP test + FS
  Fifteenth year GI test +NAP test + FS
  Sixteenth to nineteenth year NAP test + FS
  Twentieth year GI test +NAP test + FS
  Twenty-first to twenty-fourth year NAP test + FS
  Twenty-fifth year onwards GI test +NAP test + FS
NAP — Necessary additional pressure test (appendix 1)
WP — Working pressure (compressed air)  
GI — Gas inflation (fitted gas)  
FS — Floor seam  
     
Parent topic: Annex - Recommendation on Conditions for the Approval of Servicing Stations for Inflatable Liferafts
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