🔍 Key Concepts

• Accessibility of life jackets in an emergency (can everyone reach them quickly?) • Small Passenger Vessel Regulations in 46 CFR Subchapter T about lifesaving equipment stowage • Requirements about locking or restricting access to life jackets

💭 Think About

• In an emergency, when passengers need life jackets fast, which location would let the most people get them quickly without delay or keys? • Think about whether regulations want life jackets concentrated in one place or spread where passengers actually are. • Ask yourself if regulations would ever allow them to be locked away, or in a space that might flood first.

✅ Before You Answer

• Verify that life jackets must be readily accessible to all persons on board, not hidden or locked up. • Check whether regulations prefer stowage near passenger berthing/seating areas rather than in machinery or remote spaces. • Confirm that life jackets must not be locked in containers or spaces that could delay distribution.