CONTENTS:
1.1 Muster Lists & Emergency Instructions
1.2 Musters, Drills & Contingency Plans
1.3 Emergency Signals
1.4 Internal Watertight Doors
1.5 Escape Routes
2. Personal Protective Equipment
2.1 Lifejackets & Buoyancy Aids
2.2 Immersion Suits & Anti Exposure Suits
2.3 Thermal Protective Aids
3. Survival Craft
3.1 Lifeboats
3.2 Rescue Boats & Fast Rescue Boats
3.3 Liferafts Manoeuvres and Recovery
3.4 Marine Evacuation Systems
3.5 Means of Rescue
3.6 Buoyant Apparatus
4. Launching Appliances
4.1 General Requirements
4.2 Lifeboat Launching & Recovery
4.3 Rescue Boat Launching & Recovery
4.4 Liferaft Launching
4.5 Means of Rescue Launching & Recovery
4.6 Illumination in Launching Areas
4.7 Protection in Launching Areas
5. Use of Survival Craft Equipment
5.1 GRP Repairs
5.2 Inflatable Fabric Repairs
5.3 Sea Anchors
5.4 Signalling Equipment
6. Radio Equipment
6.1 GMDSS
6.2 Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons
6.3 Radar Transponders
6.4 Hand-held GMDSS Radios
6.5 Emergency Radio Messages
7. Pyrotechnics & Line Throwinq Appliances
7.1 Safe Handling of Pyrotechnics
7.2 Types and Use of Pyrotechnic
7.3 Line Throwing Appliances
8. Lifebuoys and Attachments
9. Man Overboard
10. Survival
10.1 Survival Difficulties and Factors
10.2 Abandoning
10.3 Prior to Abandoning
10.4 Abandoning & Entering the Water
10.5 After Abandonment & Actions in the Survival Craft
10.6 Immersion & Cold Shock
10.7 Hypothermia & Near Drowning
10.8 Principles of Survival
10.9 Survival Craft Ailments
10.10 Survival Resume
11. Search & Rescue
11.1 Search Planning & SAR Facilities
11.2 Helicopter Operations
11.3 Rescue by Surface Vessels
11.4 Coastguard Rescue
12. Ship Specific Details