Marine Survival. 3rd Edition

Marine Survival. 3rd Edition

This new edition fully updated and in full colour throughout is the ideal study aid for cadets and ships officers, fully updated, reflecting the recent May 2011, MSC.89 requirements for Lifeboat Release Equipment.

With a new section on Lifeboat release hooks and FPDs, the text covers Lifeboat Release Systems, where now, SOLAS Regulation III/1.5, requires ships with lifeboat release and retrieval systems that have been determined as not complying with the relevant sections of the 2010 LSA Code to be replaced with compliant equipment not later than the first scheduled drydock after 1st July 2014, but in any case not later than 1 July 2019.

Acknowledgements
Authors Introduction

1 Evacuation Systems and Marine Requirements
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Actions Before Abandoning Ship or Offshore Installation
1.3 Survival Craft: Manning Requirements Applicable to all Ships
1.4 Responsibilities of Coxswains when Abandoning Ship or Installation
1.5 Methods of Evacuation
1.6 Survival Actions in the Water
1.7 Actions in Survival Craft (of the totally enclosed type)
1.8 Main Dangers to Survivors
1.9 Summary

2 Immersion Suits, Lifejackets and Buoyancy Aids
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Requirements for the Provision of Immersion Suits and Thermal Protective Aids on Ships
2.3 General Requirements for Immersion Suits
2.4 Requirements for Thermal Protective Aids
(not to be confused with immersion suits)
2.5 Requirements for the Provision of Lifejackets on Ships
2.6 General Requirements for Lifejackets
2.7 Twin Chamber (Automatic) Lifejackets
2.8 The Aviation Lifejacket
2.9 General Requirements and Specifications for Lifebuoys
2.10 Summary

3 Emergency Alarms and Onboard Training
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Emergency Communications (applicable to passenger and cargo ships)
3.3 Emergency Alarm Signals
3.4 Survival Craft: Onboard Training and Drills
3.5Survival Craft: External Training Facilities
3.6 PSCRB
3.7 Summary

4 Helicopter Operations and Aircraft Identification
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Shipboard Operations with Helicopters
4.3 Deck Officer’s Checklist for Helicopter Operations
4.4 General Precautions for Seafarers Working with Helicopters
4.5 Deck Landing Examples
4.6 Passenger Safety for Helicopter Transit
4.7 Offshore Installations: Helideck Detail
4.8 Operational Details for Helidecks
4.9 In-flight Emergency Over the Sea Surface
4.10 Search and Rescue Operations Involving Helicopters
4.11 Evacuation Methods by Helicopter
4.12 Helicopter Operations

5 Lifeboat Construction and Equipment
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Requirements for the Provision of Lifeboats on Ships
5.3 General Requirements for Lifeboats
5.4 Lifeboat Construction
5.5 Additional Fittings to Lifeboats
5.6 Lifeboat Fitments
5.7 Lifeboat Equipment
5.8 General Information Regarding Lifeboats
5.9 Requirements for Totally Enclosed Lifeboats
5.10 Requirements for Rigid Survival Craft

6 Stowage, Launching and Recovery Systems
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Requirements for Launching and Stowage of Survival Craft
6.3 Requirements for Launching Appliances
6.4 Launching Procedure
6.5 Launching and Recovery Arrangements for Survival Craft
6.6 Embarkation and Launching of Survival Craft
6.7 Release Gear for Survival Craft
6.8 Lifeboat Release Hooks
6.9 Definition of Free-fall Launching
6.10 Free-fall Survival Craft
6.11 Capsule Survival Craft
6.12 Summary

7 Boat Handling
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Power Boat Handling Theory
7.3 Requirements for Lifeboat (engine) Propulsion
7.4 Engine Start Methods for Motor Lifeboats
7.5 Beaching Technique for a Lifeboat
7.6 Evacuation by Survival (rigid) Craft
7.7 Sail Theory
7.8 Summary

8 Liferafts
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Inflatable Liferafts –Constructional Requirements
8.3 Launching the Inflatable Liferaft
8.4 Hydrostatic Release: Method of Operation
8.5 Float-Free Arrangements for Liferafts
8.6 Liferaft Equipment
8.7 Miscellaneous Requirements for Liferafts
8.8 Liferaft Fittings
8.9 Davit-launched Liferafts
8.10 Operations with Survival Craft
8.11 Liferaft Case Studies

9 Personal Survival
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Survival Craft Operations
9.3 Liferaft Operations
9.4 Management of Liferafts

10 Rescue Boats
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Rescue Boat Regulations
10.3 General Requirements for Rescue Boats
10.4 Rescue Boat Categories
10.5 Designated Rescue Boats (shore-based)
10.6 Rescue Boat Equipment
10.7 Inflated Rescue Boats, Additional Requirements
10.8 Fast Rescue Craft (FRC) Operations

11 Medical Advice for Emergency Treatment of Marine Casualties
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Hypothermia
11.3 Treatment of Casualties in Survival Craft
11.4 Heat Exhaustion
11.5 Heatstroke
11.6 Casualties with Burns
11.7 Severe Bleeding

12 Emergency and Distress Communications
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Survival Craft: Methods of Attracting Attention
12.3 The Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS)
12.4 EPIRBs
12.5 Voyage Data Recorder (VDR)
12.6 Search and Rescue Transponder (SART)
12.7 Surface Vessel/Aircraft Radio Communications Frequencies
12.8 US Coast Guard
12.9 Netherlands Coast Guard
12.10 Royal National Lifeboat Institution
12.11 Surface-to-air Visual Signals
12.12 Air-to-surface Visual Signals
12.13 Equipment Droppable by Aircraft
12.14 Ship Reporting Systems
12.15 Use of Rocket Line Throwing Apparatus
12.16 Breeches Buoy Operation
12.17 Search and Rescue for all UK Passenger Ships Additional ref. MSN 1783 (M))