What is Liferaft and its lowering procedure in detail?

A Liferaft is also one of other thing for survival, and a life saving appliances. As solas required of chapter lll of the 1974 convention. And 1983 amendments contains a mandatory training is required.

The location of life raft is in

1. The port and starboard of 1^st deck of the ship, and
2. one in the forward

Lowering procedure :

• Take off the safety chain

 

 

• Unfasten the slip hook and the painter must be fasten on board

 

• Madefast the painter to the ship

 

• Raft is removed from cradle and thrown overboard

• When the liferaft is in the water give a sharp pull and raft will inflate, once on board cut the painter to free the raft.

• If the raft inflate upside down standup at on cylinder hull at the cord facing the wind

Note :

The liferaft is fiited with a hydrostatic release mechanism. That in case did not release manually it will automatically free and inflate the raft when the ships sinks.(2 to 5m).