SURVIVAL AND SAFETY

Manual of seamanship

Department of nautical science

SCOPE

LIFE JACKET

SURVIVAL SUIT

EMERGENCY STATION

ABANDON SHIP

25-MAN LIFERAFT

RESCUE STATIONS

SWIMMER OF THE WATCH RECOVERY RIG

STRETCHER

MAN OVERBOARD SMOKE AND LIGHTMAKER

SAFETY HARNESSES

SAFETY HELMET

SAFETY AT WORK

LIFE JACKET

• General Service Lifejacket (GSLJ)

– Supplied to every person on board the ship.

– Should be carried at emergency station,

action station and defence watches.

• Hazardous Duty Lifejacket (HDLJ)

– Issued when required.

– By personnel who duty on the weather deck.

General Service

Lifejacket

(GSLJ)

Hazardous Duty

Lifejacket

(HDLJ)

• Assault Troop Lifejacket (ATLJ)

– Give greater buoyancy than other lifejacket.

– Use for amphibious operation.

– No automatic inflation.

• Landing Craft Lifejacket (LCLJ)

– Use by crew of landing craft.

– Now used for certain small boat operation.

– Replace ATLJ for use by upper deck crews in

a NBC threat.

Assault Troop Lifejacket (ATLJ)

Landing Craft

Lifejacket

(LCLJ)

• Issued to all personnel.

• Must be carried at Defence Stations and

Action Stations.

• Designed to used once only, that is in the

abandon ship situation.

• repacked in containers.

SURVIVAL SUIT

SURVIVAL SUIT

• Pipe while the ship in event of :

– Fire

– Collision or grounding

– Aircraft or explosive incident

– Flooding

• Men not close-up on watch or any duty

must to proceed to stated muster points.

• DCFF team not to be impeded.

EMERGENCY STATION

ABANDON SHIP

• Given by CO.

• XO ensure that ship’s company are

deployed to the liferafts.

• Survival suit should be wear and lifejacket

should be wear outside the suit.

• Jump feet first while eyes looking at the

horizon.

• Remember :

– Better leave the ship over the weather side.

– Leave over the stern or bow if possible, if the

ship has a list.

– After launching, liferaft should be worked to

the bow or stern.

– If any underwater explosion, swim on the

back and lift the trunk as high as possible.

– When possible swimmer in the group should

rope themselves together.

25-MAN LIFERAFT

• Supplied packed in a weather tight GRP.

• Stowage in single on in pair.

• Released manually or hydrostatically when

the ship founder and sink.

• Inflated automatically by two gas cylinder.

Radio aids

• Emergency Position Indicating Radio

Beacon (EPIRB).

• Search and Rescue Transponder (SART).

– Ship borne model.

– Liferaft mounted model.

• Portable VHF Radio.

• SARBE Locater Bacon.

Immediate action on boarding the

raft.

• Search for survival.

• Examine the raft thoroughly for leaks.

• Bail raft dry.

• Activate radio aids.

Subsequent action on barding the

raft.

• Designate command.

• Muster survivors.

• Organize the duty roster as soon as possible.

• Detail lookout.

• Share store and equipment.

• Adapting to the condition.

• Prevent damage the liferaft.

Food and water

• Supplied in cans and sachets.

• Rations for 25 person for 3 days.

• Do not issued any water during the first 24

hours.

Raftmanship

• To control and command all the personnel.

• Navigate the raft.

• Boarding raft and distributing weight.

• Take care when raft capsized.

• Righting the capsized raft.

Organizing

• Duties

– Inspects the raft hourly.

– Care injured men.

– Signally men.

– Collect the rain water.

– Lookout of the raft.

• Keeping a log.

RESCUE STATIONS

• Preparation the equipment

– Boats

– Swimmer

– Ladder and scrambling nets.

– Heaving line and lifelines

• Use to recovery men from the water.

SWIMMER OF THE WATCH

RECOVERY RIG

• Very effective method of recovering a

person from the water.

• SOW must be trained by ship Diving

Officer.

• SOW must know all the drill, maintenance

of equipment and ability to function

effectively in the water.

STRETCHER

• Neil Robertson Stretcher

– Designed for the transportation of casualties

in difficult or unusual circumstances.

• Lightweight Transport Stretcher and

Harness

– Consists of a rectangular tubular-steel frame

fitted with a sheet metal floor.

– The harness designed to restrain movement

of the patient.

MAN OVERBOARD SMOKE AND

LIGHTMAKER

• Secured to the lifebuoy on board the ship.

• Two methods of stowage.

– Automatic release stowage • At lease 5m over the water line

• Make it retaining clip pull out before reaching the sea.

– Hand operated stowage • Pull by hand from it stowage bracket.

• Cast over the side with the lifebuoy.

SAFETY HARNESSES

• Necessary to send man aloft above 2m.

• Work in an exposed or potentially

dangerous position.

• Drawn daily and returned at the end of the

working day and when finished the work.

• Always check rope, webbing and metal

fittings.

SAFETY HELMET

• Protect the head from danger of being

struck on the head.

• Protect penetration by sharp object.

• Minimize the shock loading and crushing

effect.

SAFETY AT WORK

• Working aloft, over the side and on deck in heavy weather always appear a lot of dangerous.

• Permission must be obtained from OOD or OOW before men start the their work.

• Brief team clearly on the task that be given.

• The personnel must wear a lifejacket.

• Follow the order from the leader of the team.

• Signal by flag to acknowledge other ship and men on board the ship.

• Safety first.