West Coast Groundfish Observer Program Manual, Part2 - NOAA

CHAPTER 8 CHAPTER 8
comply with the requirements in 46 CFR
28.275.
• Drills and instructions are to include:
abandoning the vessel, fire fighting, man
overboard recovery, stabilizing vessel after
unintentional flooding, launching survival craft,
and recovery of life and rescue boats, donning
immersion suits, PFD’s, fireman’s outfits and
breathing apparatus, radio and visual distress
calls and signals, activating the general alarm and
reporting of inoperative alarms and fire
detection systems.
• Viewing of videotapes followed by discussion
led by a person familiar with the subjects can be
used for instruction requirements but not as a
substitution for drills.
• The master must ensure that all individuals who
have not received the above instruction or
participated in the drills receive a safety
orientation before the vessel may be operated.
This safety orientation must explain the
emergency instructions required by 46 CFR
28.265 and cover the specially established
procedures listed above.
High Water Alarms 46 CFR 28.250
• Alarms are to be both visual and audible and
installed at the operating station.
• Alarms are to indicate high water in each of the
following normally unmanned areas: a space
with a through-hull fitting below the deepest
load water line, a machinery space bilge, bilge
well, shaft alley bilge, or other space subject to
flooding from sea water piping within the space,
a space with a non-watertight closure such as a
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