Abandon ship drills

Abandon ship drills should be held as required by local law or SOLAS standards.

An abandon ship drill should normally be the logical follow up to any fire drill.

Each abandon ship drill should include:

1) The sounding of the alarm to summon personnel to their stations.

2) Personnel reporting to their designated stations and preparing for the duties specified in the muster list.

3) Checking that personnel are present and are suitably dressed. Warm clothing, with as many layers as possible, should be worn.

4) Checking that lifejackets and/or survival suits are correctly worn. Personnel in or close to their cabins at the time of the alarm should bring lifejackets and/or survival suits from their cabin stowage point.

5) If applicable, lowering but not necessarily launching of at least one lifeboat after any necessary pre-launch preparations, including davit inspection, operation and starting the lifeboat engine.

6) Preparing at least one inflatable life raft by lowering necessary rails or chains.

Lifeboats should be actually launched with their assigned crews and manoeuvred in the water during an abandon ship drill at intervals of no longer than 3 months although free fall boats may be lowered to the water using the recovery system when free fall launching is hazardous as long as a free fall launch is undertaken at least every 6 months.

Rescue boats should be launched with their assigned crews and manoeuvred so far as possible every month but in any case at intervals not longer than 3 months. Rescue boat launchings should incorporate a simulated recovery operation with a suitable floating object or dummy used as a simulated man overboard.

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