Your 550 GT vessel is equipped with a free...

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Your 550 GT vessel is equipped with a free fall lifeboat. Where should the SART units be stowed to meet SOLAS requirements?

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Question 1 of 27070

Your 550 GT vessel is equipped with a free fall lifeboat. Where should the SART units be stowed to meet SOLAS requirements?

🔍 Key Concepts

• SOLAS Chapter IV requirements for SART carriage and stowage on cargo ships over 500 GT • How SARTs must be both near the navigation bridge and quickly available to survival craft • Special consideration for ships fitted with a free-fall lifeboat

💭 Think About

• Which options place a SART where the bridge team can easily get to it in an emergency AND where it can go with survivors in the free-fall lifeboat? • Does SOLAS expect a SART to be a portable unit or something permanently fixed in place? How does that affect which wording best matches the rule? • Do the bridge wings satisfy the SOLAS wording about being "on or near" the navigation bridge, and does SOLAS allow "no specific location" for SARTs?

✅ Before You Answer

• Check whether SOLAS uses the words "stowed" vs. "permanently mounted" when describing SART location • Confirm that at least one SART must be available to take into a survival craft (in this case, the free-fall lifeboat) • Verify that SOLAS specifies "on or near the navigation bridge" for SART stowage rather than on specific sides or wings of the bridge

Question 1 of 27070

Your 550 GT vessel is equipped with a free fall lifeboat. Where should the SART units be stowed to meet SOLAS requirements?

one unit permanently mounted in the lifeboat and one unit in the immediate vicinity of the navigation bridge

one unit stowed in the lifeboat and one unit in the immediate vicinity of the navigation bridge

no specific location is designated however the units must be readily accessible

one unit stowed on the port bridge wing and one unit stowed on the starboard bridge wing

Question 1 / 2707066636eec28f7522a1c51befb

Question 1 of 2707066636eec28f7522a1c51befb

Your 550 GT vessel is equipped with a free fall lifeboat. Where should the SART units be stowed to meet SOLAS requirements?

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Question 1 of 27070

Your 550 GT vessel is equipped with a free fall lifeboat. Where should the SART units be stowed to meet SOLAS requirements?