🔍 Key Concepts

• Lifeboat handling signals used during drills and emergencies • Difference between signals to start lowering, stop lowering, and hoist boats • How short blasts versus continuous blasts are typically used on ships

💭 Think About

• Think about which signal would need to be clearly distinct and easy to react to quickly when you must stop lowering immediately. • Consider how many short blasts are commonly assigned to different boat operations (lower, stop, hoist) so they are not confused with one another. • Ask yourself which option is least likely to be confused with other standard sound signals used for maneuvering (like 1 short blast = I am altering my course to starboard, etc.).

✅ Before You Answer

• Make sure the signal you choose would be unambiguous to the boat crew and clearly different from the signal to lower away. • Verify that the signal is short and simple enough to be given quickly in an emergency, but still clearly different from signals for other boat actions. • Check that the pattern (number of blasts vs. continuous blast) makes sense when compared to how start/stop/hoist lifeboat operations are usually organized.