RECOVERY FROM SURVIVAL CRAFT

1. Hospital : prepare hospital to receive the causality provide medical aid – first aid expect to treat for shock and hypothermia. Stretcher, blanket, warm clothing’s, hot drinks wake ready.
2. Rescue apparatus: scrambling nets and boarding ladder rigged over side. Together with a guest warp.
Derricks and deck cranes swang over side to recover survival craft, provided the swl of the lifting gear is adequate.
Cargo nets, cargo baskets is useful for recovering injured people.
3. Try to maneuver the rescue vessel to windward of the survival craft to create a lee, to aid the recovery.
4. Establish communication with the survival craft ASAP.
5. Acknowledge distress signal, flares by sound or light signals.
6. Enough heaving lines ready, lta (rocket) ready.
7. Maintaining normal bridge watch, checking navigational hazard in the vicinity. Display correct flag signals. Keep other shipping as well as the coastal radio station. Informed of movement and situation.

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Fire in Engine room duty as duty officer?

Raise fire alarm
Inform master quickly
Head count at muster station
Stop eng and machinery and evacuate every one from er
Close all vents, blowers, doors.
Cut fuel supply and isolate er. Start em gen.
After all evacuated release co2 with masters instruction and permission.
Ready lifeboat for launching. Boundary cooling if possible.
Inform nearest port and follow their instructions.
Relay distress.
2 persons with scba in to check status after 24 hrs.
Emg gen should be started prior for deck lightings etc.
Switching on radar – precautions.
No obstruction near the scanner.
No person near the antenna / scanner.
Stby
Performance monitor, blind sector.
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Information in routine chart?

Monthly wx conditions – wind, sea, current, warning
Gale warnings
Iceberg
Freezing line / zone
Recommended routes and distance
Covers and Particular Ocean
Zone

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