🔍 Key Concepts

• Purpose of manropes when used with a stage over the ship’s side • Hazards of trailing lines in the water near a vessel’s side (entanglement, propellers, suction) • Basic safety seamanship: how to protect a person who might fall from a stage

💭 Think About

• Ask yourself: in an emergency where someone falls off the stage, what immediate aid could a properly rigged manrope offer? • Which options describe a real safety benefit versus a minor convenience (like removing kinks or checking current)? • Consider whether making a line waterlogged and hard to recover would normally be encouraged or avoided in good seamanship.

✅ Before You Answer

• Identify which choice is most directly related to person-overboard protection near the stage • Eliminate any options that describe purposes unrelated to fall protection or casualty assistance • Check which option aligns with common safe working practices aloft and over the side rather than comfort or convenience.