6.2.2 Performance of the manned evacuation system
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6.2.2 Performance of the manned evacuation system

  6.2.2.1 A marine evacuation system shall be:

  • .1 capable of deployment by one person;

  • .2 such as to enable the total number of persons for which it is designed. to be transferred from the ship into the inflated liferafts within a period of 30 min in the case of a passenger ship and of 10 min in the case of a cargo ship from the time abandon ship signal is given;

  • .3 arranged such that liferafts may be securely attached to the platform and released from the platform by a person either in the liferaft or on the platform;

  • .4 capable of being deployed from the ship under unfavourable conditions of trim of up to 10° and list of up to 20° either way;

  • .5 in the case of being fitted with an inclined slide, such that the angle of the slide to the horizontal is:

    • .1 within a range of 30° to 35° when the ship is upright and in the lightest sea-going condition; and

    • .2 in the case of a passenger ship, a maximum of 55° in the final stage of flooding set by the requirements in regulation II-1/8;

  • .6 evaluated for capacity by means of timed evacuation deployments conducted in harbour;

  • .7 capable of providing a satisfactory means of evacuation in a sea state associated with a wind of force 6 on the Beaufort scale;

  • .8 designed to, as far as practicable, remain effective under conditions of icing; and

  • .9 so constructed that only a minimum amount of routine maintenance is necessary. Any part requiring maintenance by the ship's crews shall be readily accessible and easily maintained.

  6.2.2.2 Where one or more marine evacuation systems are provided on a ship. at least 50% of such systems shall be subjected to a trial deployment after installation. Subject to these deployments being satisfactory, the untried systems are to be deployed within 12 months of installation.

Parent topic: 6.2 Marine evacuation systems
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