🔍 Key Concepts
• Load line regulations purposes (what they protect against: overloading, freeboard, reserve buoyancy)
• Relationship between freeboard, flooding risk, and vessel safety
• What aspects of a MODU’s design are covered by other regulations (e.g., lifesaving appliances, mooring, risers) instead of load lines
💭 Think About
• Ask yourself: Load line rules mainly control how deep the hull can sit in the water. What key safety characteristic does that directly affect?
• Which option is most closely tied to buoyancy, freeboard, and reserve buoyancy, rather than to equipment or operations?
• Which of these items (mooring tension, riser tension, lifesaving equipment, or something else) would change if you put more weight on board and the vessel sat lower in the water?
✅ Before You Answer
• Verify what freeboard means and how it relates to the ship’s ability to stay afloat in heavy weather.
• Check which of the choices is a ship-wide physical property (not a specific piece of gear or system).
• Confirm that load line regulations are about overloading and seaworthiness, not about detailed equipment requirements.