SCRB Task 3.1.B

Handle a lifeboat under oars

MMA Method

In order to satisfy NVIC 04-14 Task 3.1.B , MMA students must:

NVIC Method

See NVIC method.

STCW Competence Knowledge, Understanding, and Proficiency

Manage survivors and survival craft after abandoning ship

SCRB-X3.1 Handling survival craft in rough weather
Condition Behavior Standard

In a lifeboat in the water,

the candidate responds properly and in unison with other oarsmen correctly to orders from the coxswain.


PSC The assessment is only for an endorsement as PSC. Mariners holding endorsements as PSC-Limited who wish to increase the scope of the endorsement to PSC should complete these assessments.

The candidate properly responds to the following commands:

  1. Stand by the oars;
  2. Out oars;
  3. Stand by to give way;
  4. Give way;
  5. Oars;
  6. Hold water;
  7. Back water;
  8. Way enough; and
  9. Boat the oars.