NVIC 04-14 Task 3.7.A

Manage survivors and survival craft after abandoning ship

SCRB-X3.7 Use of rescue boats and motor lifeboats for marshalling life rafts and rescue of survivors and persons in the sea

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

the candidate describes or selects the answer that describes the post abandon ship use of rescue boats and survival craft.

The candidate describes the use of rescue boats and survival craft to:

1. Collect survivors in the water, and bring them aboard using the equipment normally stowed in the survival craft or rescue boat;
2. Tow life rafts to the marshalling area without capsizing them; and
3. Conduct basic search and rescue patterns used to locate persons and other survival craft in the water.