🔍 Key Concepts

• Lifeboat handling in heavy seas • Effect of waves on a vessel’s stability • Danger of taking seas on the beam (broadside)

💭 Think About

• Picture the direction of the waves relative to the lifeboat. How does being broadside to the waves change how the boat moves? • Which option describes a risk that mariners are specifically warned about in rough or breaking seas? • Ask yourself: in survival training, are you taught to keep the bow or stern into the waves, or to let the waves hit you on the side?

✅ Before You Answer

• Identify which choice describes a dangerous stability outcome, not comfort or speed. • Eliminate any answers that sound like performance improvements in rough seas. • Recall that seas striking the side of a small craft increase rolling and risk of loss of stability.