🔍 Key Concepts
• Immediate post-abandon ship priorities (safety, organization, communication, survival)
• Role of a person in charge in emergency and survival craft procedures
• Order of actions in liferaft organization vs. longer-term survival actions (morale, search, signaling)
💭 Think About
• Right after clearing away from the vessel, what must be established so that all other actions (searching, signaling, morale) can be carried out efficiently and safely?
• Which option is most directly related to creating order, making decisions, and coordinating everyone’s actions in the liferaft?
• Which options are important, but more likely to be continuing or follow‑on tasks rather than one of the very first organizational steps?
✅ Before You Answer
• Verify which task creates clear leadership and decision-making in the raft.
• Consider which option is needed before you can effectively organize searches, radio use, and morale activities.
• Check standard abandon ship / survival craft procedures for the typical sequence of: account for people, establish control, then begin communication and search efforts.