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