NVIC 04-14 Task 4.1.B

Use locating devices, including communication and signaling apparatus and pyrotechnics

SCRB-X4.1 Radio life-saving appliances carried in survival craft, including satellite EPIRBs and SARTs

On board a ship, in an approved or accepted course, or in a laboratory, using an unpowered or disabled SART,

the candidate demonstrates proper operation of the SART.

The candidate:

1. Performs the operations needed to manually activate the SART; and

2. Describes the following;

   a. indicators that would be activated to indicate that the SART is operating;

   b. indicators that would be activated to indicate that the SART is responding to a vessels RADAR;

   c. the change in effectiveness of the SART as it is elevated; and

   d. the effect on a SART if a RADAR reflector is installed nearby and how to avoid this effect.

NOTE: If the SART has been placed into a test mode for this demonstration, the candidate will also describe the procedure to return the SART back into service.