🔍 Key Concepts

• Small passenger vessel lifesaving appliance requirements in 46 CFR Subchapter T • The designed purpose and typical equipment of a life float • Which items are normally attached to survival craft vs. carried separately on board

💭 Think About

• Think about what a life float is expected to do in the water and what would help it keep survivors oriented and stable until rescue • Consider which listed items are normally assigned to liferafts or survival craft packs rather than to a simple life float • Ask yourself which of these items would reasonably be permanently rigged or secured to a float stored on deck

✅ Before You Answer

• Verify in 46 CFR which specific fittings or gear are required to be attached to or provided with life floats • Check which items (EPIRB, signal mirror, paddles) are normally part of personnel or liferaft survival kits, not the float itself • Confirm whether a drogue/sea anchor-type device is specified in the regulations for stabilizing floats or rafts in a seaway