8.7.1 Embarkation stations shall be readily accessible
from accommodation and work areas. If the designated assembly stations
are other than the passenger spaces, the assembly stations shall be
readily accessible from the passenger spaces, and the embarkation
stations shall be readily accessible from the assembly stations.
8.7.2 Evacuation routes, exits and embarkation
points shall comply with the requirements of 4.7.
8.7.3 Alleyways, stairways and exits giving access
to the assembly and embarkation stations shall be adequately illuminated
by lighting supplied from the main and emergency source of electrical
power required by chapter 12.
8.7.4 Where davit-launched survival craft are
not fitted, MES or equivalent means of evacuation shall be provided
in order to avoid persons entering the water to board survival craft.
Such MES or equivalent means of evacuation shall be so designed as
to enable persons to board survival craft in all operational conditions
and also in all conditions of flooding after receiving damage to the
extent prescribed in chapter 2.
8.7.5 Subject to survival craft and rescue boat
embarkation arrangements being effective within the environmental
conditions in which the craft is permitted to operate and in all undamaged
and prescribed damage conditions of trim and heel, where the freeboard
between the intended embarkation position and the waterline is not
more than 1.5 m, the Administration may accept a system where persons
board liferafts directly.
8.7.6 Where an MES is provided for embarkation
into survival craft on a category B craft, an alternative means of
evacuating passengers and crew into survival craft on the same side
of the craft in conditions up to and including the worst intended
conditions is to be provided for use if the MES is lost or rendered
unserviceable in the event of damage of longitudinal extent specified
in 2.6.7.1.
8.7.7 Rescue boat embarkation arrangements shall
be such that the rescue boat can be boarded and launched directly
from the stowed position and recovered rapidly when loaded with its
full complement of persons and equipment.
8.7.8 Launching systems for rescue boats on category
B craft may be based on power supply from the craft's power supply
under the following conditions:
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.1 the davit or crane shall be supplied with power
from two sources in each independent engine room;
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.2 the davit or crane shall comply with the required
launching, lowering and hoisting speeds when using only one power
source; and
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.3 the davit or crane is not required to be activated
from a position within the rescue boat.
8.7.9 On multihull craft with a small HL
1 angle of heel and trim, the design angles in paragraph 6.1 of the LSA Code may be changed
from 20° /10° to the maximum angles calculated in accordance
with annex 7, including heeling lever HL
2, HTL, HL
3 or HL
4.
8.7.10 Rescue boat davits or cranes may be designed
for launching and recovering the boat with three persons only on the
condition that an additional boarding arrangement is available on
each side complying with 8.7.5.
8.7.11 A safety knife shall be provided at each
MES embarkation station.