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Oral Questions: Lower Lifeboat in Heavy Weather Condition

The document contains questions related to procedures during vessel distress situations: 1. It asks about the sequence for sending distress alerts and which should be sent last, and why. 2. It asks how to take a winchman aboard a lifeboat that is already full during a wind force 6/7 situation. 3. It asks how to launch and recover a lifeboat during a wind force 6/7 situation. 4. It provides guidance on lowering a lifeboat in heavy weather, including using steadying methods, wearing protective gear, using sea quelling oil, positioning the vessel in a lee, and other precautions.

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Oral Questions: Lower Lifeboat in Heavy Weather Condition

The document contains questions related to procedures during vessel distress situations: 1. It asks about the sequence for sending distress alerts and which should be sent last, and why. 2. It asks how to take a winchman aboard a lifeboat that is already full during a wind force 6/7 situation. 3. It asks how to launch and recover a lifeboat during a wind force 6/7 situation. 4. It provides guidance on lowering a lifeboat in heavy weather, including using steadying methods, wearing protective gear, using sea quelling oil, positioning the vessel in a lee, and other precautions.

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  • Vessel in Distress: Explores procedures and questions related to handling a vessel in distress, including giving distress alerts and communication protocols.
  • Precautions: Describes safety measures and methods to prevent hazards when lowering lifeboats during emergency situations.

ORAL QUESTIONS

2. Vessel in Distress
1. Steps to be taken when disabled and in distress.

2. Preservation of passengers and crews in the event of wreck.

3. Abandoning ship: survival procedures.

4. Communication with the shore.

Questions:

2. 1. Sequence for sending distress alert. Which one last? Why?

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2. 2. Wind force 6/7. Every one inside the lifeboat except winchman.
How would you take him?

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2. 3. How would you launch/ recover lifeboat in 6/7 wind force?

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2. 4. How will you lower lifeboat in heavy weather condition? View


ans

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Ans :

Lower lifeboat in heavy


weather condition
Preparation
Some steadying method to be used so that the life boat does not land hard
against the ship side.
Prevent the fall blocks to hit ship crew or lifeboat.
Boat crews must wear life jacket, helmet, immersion suit in cold climate for
rescuing operation.
Sea quelling oil may be used to reduce the seas.
Vessel to create a good lee. Wind to be on the opposite bow.
Ship plugs.
Lower lifeboat into the trough of a wave.
On the next rising crest, release the hooks immediately and simultaneously.
Cast off the painter once clear.
Bear off the ship's side with tiller, oars or boat hook.
Engine is started before the release of blocks and kept neutral.
Once lifeboat is underway, tiller put against ship's side and with full throttle
clear off the ship.

Precautions
Rig fenders, mattresses or mooring ropes to prevent the boat from being
staved during an adverse roll.
A cargo net, slung between davits and trailing in the water for crew to hang
on in case the boat capsize alongside. It should not hamper the operation of
the boat.
The painter is rigged and kept tight throughout so as to keep the boat in
position between the falls.
The falls are loosely tied with a line, led to the deck and manned. When the
boat is unhooked, the line line will steady the falls and prevent accidental
contact with the boat crews.
Once unhooked, the blocks should be taken up to avoid injuring the crews
in lifeboat.

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2. 5. What are the Master’s obligation in meeting distress situation?

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