The company and the master shall ensure that:
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.1 a sufficient number of trained persons are
on board for mustering and assisting untrained persons;
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.2 a sufficient number of crew members, who may
be deck officers or certificated persons, are on board for operating
the survival craft, rescue boats and launching arrangements required
for abandonment by the total number of persons on board;
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.3 a deck officer or certificated person is placed
in charge of each survival craft to be used, recognizing, however,
that the Administration, having due regard to the nature of the voyage,
the number of persons on board and the characteristics of the craft,
may permit a deck officer, certificated person or persons practised
in the handling and operation of liferafts to be placed in charge
of each liferaft or group of liferafts;
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.4 the person in charge of survival craft has
a list of the survival craft crew and sees that those crew members
are acquainted with their duties;
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.5 every rescue boat and lifeboat has a person
assigned who is capable of operating the engine and carrying out minor
adjustments; and
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.6 the persons referred to in .1 to .3 are equitably
distributed among the craft's survival craft.