NVIC 04-14 Task 3.5.A

Manage survivors and survival craft after abandoning ship

SCRB-X3.5 Method of helicopter rescue

On a Coast Guard examination or in an approved or accepted course,

the candidate describes or selects the answer that describes helicopter rescues from a lifeboat or rescue boat.

The candidate describes helicopter rescues from a survival craft, including:

1. Visual and radio communications with the helicopter;
2. Effects of the helicopter downdraft on the survival craft;
3. Precautions when handling devices lowered from the helicopter;
4. Use of rescue devices that may be deployed from the helicopter;
5. Order of departure of survivors from survival craft;
6. Not securing devices from the helicopter to the survival craft; and

7. Information to pass on to helicopter crew upon rescue, such as;

   a. injuries aboard; and

   b. locations of other groups of survivors.