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.