Lifeboat & Liferaft Survival Book

It is often stated that your best survival craft is the ship you are on! However, if the time comes to abandon that ship your best chance of survival is to have a well-trained and knowledgeable ships complement.

The recently revised and reprinted survival booklet published by Maritime Progress contains information essential to survival if the time comes to abandon ship and take to a lifeboat or life raft. This includes making effective use of the equipment provided and adopting the correct procedures.

The LSA Code Chapter IV requires survival craft to carry a survival manual with instructions on how to survive. The Maritime Progress survival Booklet (PB1201Z) is printed on waterproof material for storage in both lifeboats and liferafts and has been developed in accordance with IMO Resolution A.657(16) – Instructions for action in survival craft.

Contents List                                                                                        

Section 1:           General Information

Section 2:           Survival Equipment and Rations Inventory

Section 3:           Initial Actions

Section 4:           Secondary Actions

Section 5:           Subsequent Actions

Section 6:           Rationing

Section 7:           Medical Equipment Inventory

Section 8:           First Aid and Emergency Treatment

Section 9:           Detection Equipment Inventory

Section 10:         Use of Detection Equipment

Section 11:         Detection, Rescue and Beaching

All crew members should be given the opportunity to read this book and be made aware of it as part of their Emergency Survival Training.  The book should also be read again as soon as possible on entering the survival craft and retained for reference by the survival craft leader.