130.430 Pilothouse control.

Each OSV must have, at the pilotuse, controls to start a fire pump, arge the fire main, and monitor the ressure in the fire main.

30.440 Communications system.

(a) Each OSV must have a commucations system to immediately sumon a crew member to the machinery ace wherever one of the alarms reired by § 130.460 of this subpart is acvated.

(b) The communications system must either

(1) An alarm that—

(i) Is dedicated for this purpose; (ii) Sounds in the crew accommodaons and the normally manned spaces; id

(iii) Is operable from the pilothouse;

(2) A telephone operated from the pithouse that reaches the master's ateroom, engineer's stateroom, enne room, and crew accommodations at either

(i) Is a sound-powered telephone; or (ii) Gets its power from the emerency switchboard or from an indeendent battery continuously charged y its own charger.

130.450 Machinery alarms.

(a) Each alarm required by § 130.460 of his subpart must be of the self-monioring type that will both show visibly nd sound audibly upon an opening or reak in the sensing circuit.

(b) The visible alarm must show until t is manually acknowledged and the ondition is corrected.

(c) The audible alarm must sound ntil it is manually silenced.

(d) No silenced alarm may prevent ny other audible alarm from soundng.

(e) Each OSV must be provided with neans for testing each visible and aulible alarm.

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(f) Each OSV must provide battery for the alarm required by 130.460(a)(8) of this subpart.

$130.460 Placement of machinery

alarms.

(a) Visible and audible alarms must be installed at the pilothouse to indicate the following:

(1) Loss of power for propulsion control.

(2) Loss of power to the steering motor or for control of the main steering gear.

(3) Engine-room fire.

(4) High bilge-level.

(5) Low lube-oil pressure for each main propulsion engine and each prime mover of a generator.

(6) For each main propulsion engine and each prime mover of a generator— (i) High lube-oil temperature; and (ii) High jacket-water temperature. (7) For each reduction gear and each turbocharger with a pressurized oil sys

tem

(i) Low lube-oil pressure; and
(ii) High lube-oil temperature.

(8) Loss of normal power for the alarms listed in paragraphs (a)(1) through (a)(7) of this section.

(b) Sensors for the high-bilge-level alarm required by paragraph (a)(4) of this section must be installed in

(1) Each space below the deepest load waterline that contains pumps, motors, or electrical equipment; and

(2) The compartment that contains the rudder post.

(c) Centralized displays must be installed in the machinery spaces to allow rapid evaluation of each problem detected by the alarms required by paragraph (a) of this section. Equipment-mounted gauges or meters are acceptable for this purpose, if they are grouped at a central site.

$130.470 Fire alarms.

(a) Each fire detector and control unit must be of a type specifically approved by the Commandant (G-MSE).

(b) No fire-alarm circuit for the engine room may contain a fire detector for any other space.

(c) The number and placement of fire detectors must be approved by the cognizant OCMI.

§ 130.480 Test procedure and operations manual.

(a) A procedure for tests to be conducted on automated equipment by the operator and the Coast Guard must be submitted to comply with §127.110 of this subchapter.

(b) The procedure for tests must

(1) Be in a sequential-checkoff format;

(2) Include the required alarms, controls, and communications; and

(3) Set forth details of the tests. (c) Details of the tests must specify status of equipment, functions necessary to complete the tests, and expected results.

(d) No tests may simulate conditions by misadjustments, artificial signals, or improper wiring.

(e) A detailed operations manual that describes the operation and indicates the location of each system installed to comply with this part must be submitted to comply with § 127.110 of this subchapter.

Subpart B-Markings on Vessels

131.800

131.210 Hulls.

131.220 Drafts.

131.230 Loadlines and decklines.

Subpart C-Preparations for Emergencies

131.310 List of crew members and offshore workers.

131.320 Safety orientation for offshore work

ers.

131.330 Emergency instructions.

131.340 Recommended placard for

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131.810

General alarm bell.

131.815 Alarm for fixed gaseous fire-extinguishing systems.

131.820 Branch lines of fire-extinguishing

(a) Each vessel must have the drafts f the vessel plainly and legibly narked upon the stem and upon the ternpost or rudderpost, or at any place at the stern of the vessel that may be necessary for easy observance. The bottom of each mark must indicate the draft.

(b) Each draft must be taken from the bottom of the keel to the surface of the water at the location of the marks.

(c) When, because of raked stem or cutaway skeg, the keel does not extend forward or aft to the draft markings, the datum line from which the draft is taken must be the line of the bottom of the keel projected forward or aft, as the case may be, to where the line meets that of the draft markings projected downward.

(d) When a skeg or other appendage extends below the line of the keel, the draft at the end of the vessel adjacent to that appendage must be measured to a line tangent to the lowest part of the appendage and parallel to the line of the bottom of the keel.

(e) Drafts must be separated so that the projections of the marks onto a vertical plane are of uniform height, equal to the vertical spacing between consecutive marks.

(f) Marks must be painted in a color contrasting with that of the hull.

(g) Where marks are obscured because of operational constraints or by protrusions, the vessel must be fitted with a reliable draft-indicating system from which the drafts at bow and stern can be determined.

§ 131.230 Loadlines and decklines.

Each vessel assigned a loadline must have loadline markings and deck-line markings permanently scribed or embossed as required by subchapter E of this chapter.

Subpart C-Preparations for
Emergencies

§ 131.310 List of crew members and offshore workers.

(a) The master of each vessel shall keep a correct list containing the name of each person that embarks upon and disembarks from the vessel.

(b) The list required by paragraph (a) of this section must be prepared before the vessel's departure on a voyage, and deposited ashore

(1) At the facility from which the crew members and offshore workers embarked;

(2) In a well-marked place at the vessel's normal berth; or

(3) With a representative of the owner or managing operator of the vessel.

§ 131.320 Safety orientation for offshore workers.

(a) Before a vessel gets under way on a voyage, the master shall ensure that suitable public announcements are made informing each offshore worker of

(1) In general terms, emergency and evacuation procedures;

(2) Locations of emergency exits and of embarkation areas for survival craft; (3) Locations of stowage of lifejackets and immersion suits;

(4) With demonstration, proper method or methods of donning and adjusting lifejackets and immersion suits of the type or types carried on the vessel;

(5) Locations of the instruction placards for lifejackets and other lifesaving devices;

(6) Explanation that each offshore worker shall don an immersion suit and a lifejacket when the master determines that hazardous conditions do or might exist but that offshore workers may don lifejackets whenever they feel it necessary;

(7) Which hazardous conditions might require the donning of lifejackets and immersion suits;

(8) Types and locations of any other lifesaving device carried on the vessel; (9) Locations and contents of the "Emergency Instructions" required by § 131.330;

(10) Survival craft to which assigned; (11) Any hazardous materials on the vessel; and

(12) Any conditions or circumstances that constitute a risk to safety.

(b) The master of each vessel shall ensure that each offshore worker boarding the vessel on a voyage after the initial public announcement has been made, as required by paragraph (a) of this section, also hears the information in paragraph (a) of this section.

§ 131.330 Emergency instructions.

(a) Except as otherwise provided by this section, the master of each vessel shall prepare and post durable emergency-instruction placards in conspicuous locations accessible to the crew members and offshore workers.

(b) The instruction placards must contain the recommended "Emergency Instructions" listed in § 131.340 that, in the judgment of the cognizant OCMI, apply. The placards must be further designed to address the equipment, arrangement, and operation peculiar to each vessel.

§ 131.340 Recommended placard for emergency instructions.

The following are the recommended format and content of the placard for emergency instructions:

EMERGENCY INSTRUCTIONS

(a) Rough weather at sea, crossing of hazardous bars, or flooding.

(1) Close each watertight and weathertight door, hatch, and air-port to prevent taking water aboard or further flooding in the vessel.

(2) Keep bilges dry to prevent loss of stability from water in bilges. Use power-driven bilge pump, hand pump. and buckets to dewater.

(3) Align fire pumps to serve as bilge pumps if possible.

(4) Check, for leakage, each intake and discharge line that penetrates the hull.

(5) Offshore workers remain seated and evenly distributed.

(6) Offshore workers don immersion suits (if required aboard) or lifejackets if the going becomes very rough, if the vessel is about to cross a hazardous bar, if flooding begins, or when ordered to by the master.

(7) Never abandon the vessel unless actually forced to, or ordered to by the master.

(8) Prepare survival craft-life floats. (inflatable) rafts, (inflatable) buoyant apparatus, and boats-for launching. (b) "Man overboard”.

(1) Throw a ring buoy into the water as close to the person overboard as possible.

(2) Post a lookout to keep the person overboard in sight.

(3) Launch the rescue boat and maneuver it to pick up the person overboard, or maneuver the vessel to pick up the person.

(4) Have a crew member put on an immersion suit or lifejacket, have a safety line made fast to the crew mem ber, and have the crew member stand by to jump into the water to assist the person overboard if necessary.

(5) If the person overboard is not im mediately located

(i) Notify other vessels in the vicin ity, and the Coast Guard; and

(ii) Continue searching until release by the Coast Guard.

(c) Fire.

(1) Cut off air to the fire: close hatchs, ports, doors, manual ventilators, nd the like and shut off the ventilaion system.

(2) De-energize upplying the affected compartment. (3) Immediately use a portable fire xtinguisher aimed at the base of the lames. Never use water on electrical ires.

electrical systems

(4) If the fire is in machinery spaces, hut off the fuel supply and ventilation ystem and activate any fixed extinuishing-system.

(5) Maneuver the vessel to minimize he effect of wind on the fire.

(6) If unable to control the fire, noify other vessels in the vicinity, and he Coast Guard.

(7) Move offshore workers away from ire; have them don lifejackets and, if ecessary, prepare to abandon the vesel.

131.350 Station bill.

(a) The master of each vessel shall ost a station bill if the vessel's Cerificate of Inspection requires more han four crew members, including the naster.

(b) The station bill must be posted in he pilothouse and in conspicuous laces in crew members' and offshore vorkers' accommodations.

(c) The station bill must set forth the pecial duties and duty stations of each rew member for various emergencies. The duties must, as far as possible, be comparable to and compatible with the regular work of the member. The duies must include at least the following and should comprise any other duties lecessary for the proper handling of a particular emergency:

(1) The closing of hatches, air-ports, watertight doors, vents, and scuppers, and of intake valves and discharge lines that penetrate the hull; the stopping of fans and ventilating systems; and the operating of safety equipment. (2) The preparing and launching of survival craft and rescue boats. (3) The extinguishing of fire.

(4) The mustering of offshore workers, which includes

(i) Assembling them and seeing that they are properly dressed and have donned their immersion suits and lifejackets; and

(ii) Directing them to their appointed stations.

§ 131.360 Responsibilities of licensed or certificated individuals.

Nothing in the emergency instructions or in any station bill required by this subpart exempts any licensed or certificated individual from the exercise of good judgment in an emergency.

Subpart D-Sufficiency and Supervision of Crew of Survival Craft

§ 131.410 Certificate of proficiency.

A merchant mariner's document with an endorsement of lifeboatman or another inclusive rating under part 12 of this title is evidence of training in survival craft and serves as a certificate of proficiency. For this subpart, a "certificated" person is a person holding a merchant mariner's document with such an endorsement.

§ 131.420 Manning and supervision.

(a) There must be enough trained persons aboard each survival craft to muster and assist untrained persons.

(b) Except as permitted by paragraph (c)(2) of this section, there must be enough deck officers, able seamen, or other certificated persons aboard each survival craft to manage the launching and handling of the survival craft.

(c) One person must be placed in charge of each survival craft to be used.

(1) Except as permitted by paragraph (c)(2) of this section, the person in command must be a deck officer, able seaman, or other certificated person.

(2) Considering the nature of the voyage, the number of persons permitted aboard, and the characteristics of the vessel, including gross tonnage, the cognizant OCMI may permit persons practiced in the handling of liferafts to be placed in charge of liferafts instead of persons required under paragraph (c)(1) of this section.

(3) A deck officer, able seaman, or other certificated person shall serve as second-in-command for each lifeboat

either

(i) Carried on a vessel in ocean service; or