🔍 Key Concepts

• SOLAS liferaft and lifeboat equipment requirements (visual distress signals) • Difference between rocket parachute flares, hand flares, and smoke signals • Minimum set of visual distress signals normally carried in a SOLAS survival craft

💭 Think About

• Recall what the standard SOLAS survival craft equipment list includes for visual distress signals. Does it include only one type of signal, or a mix? • Think about the purpose of each type of signal: which are for night, which are for day, and which options in the answers would leave you without either day or night capability? • Look at each option and ask: does this sound like a complete, balanced set of signals, or is it missing something that SOLAS normally requires?

✅ Before You Answer

• Verify from SOLAS/LSA that survival craft normally carry more than one type of distress signal (not just rockets, not just a pistol). • Check whether SOLAS specifies a particular number of smoke signals in the equipment list for a liferaft/lifeboat. • Confirm that survival craft are not required to carry a Very pistol as standard SOLAS equipment, but are required to carry specific numbers of flares and smoke signals.