🔍 Key Concepts

• 46 CFR Subchapter T requirements for life jackets on small passenger vessels • Difference between persons carried and type/size of life jackets required • Whether a child life jacket can substitute for an adult life jacket (or vice versa) under the regs

💭 Think About

• Start from the total number of persons your COI or certificate allows—how many total life jackets must you have at a minimum? • Think about what the regulation says about how many child-sized life jackets you need when children may be carried—does it specify a minimum number or a percentage? • Ask yourself: does carrying child life jackets reduce the number of adult jackets required, or are they in addition to a base requirement?

✅ Before You Answer

• Verify that you must have at least one wearable life jacket per person carried on the certificate. • Check whether the rule requires extra child life jackets beyond the total, or a certain proportion of the total to be child-sized when children are carried. • Confirm if the regulation ever allows fewer than 10 total life jackets for a vessel certificated to carry 10 persons.