🔍 Key Concepts

• 46 CFR Subchapter W – Lifesaving Appliances and Arrangements (look especially at requirements for additional lifejackets) • The purpose of additional lifejackets when normal stowage may become inaccessible • Who has authority to decide stowage locations and whether any specific groups (bridge watch, engineers, etc.) are singled out in the regulation

💭 Think About

• Ask yourself: when lifejackets might be blocked or unreachable, what is the main safety goal of requiring additional lifejackets? Is it to protect a specific watch team, or to ensure access for everyone in that area? • Consider whether the regulation usually gives an exact group/percentage, or if it more often gives a general principle and leaves details to a designated authority. • Think about whether the rules would require those extra lifejackets to be tied to a single survival craft (like forward lifeboats), or placed where people actually work and move around.

✅ Before You Answer

• Verify in 46 CFR whether any option mentions a specific percentage of crew (like 50%) and if that number really appears in the regulation. • Check if the regulation explicitly states that extra lifejackets are only for the bridge watch or excludes engineers, or if it talks instead about accessibility for persons in remote or separated locations. • Confirm who the regulation names as responsible for approving or determining stowage of additional lifejackets (is it the OCMI or does the rule prescribe fixed locations?).