Table 108.575(b)-Survival Craft Equipment
Item No. | Item | International service | Other than international service | ||||
Lifeboat | Rigid liferaft | Rescue boat | Lifeboat | Rigid liferaft | Rescue boat | ||
1 | Bailer1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
2 | Bilge pump2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
3 | Boathook | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||
4 | Bucket3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||
5 | Can opener | 3 | 3 | ||||
6 | Compass | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
7 | Dipper | 1 | 1 | ||||
8 | Drinking cup | 1 | 1 | ||||
9 | Fire extinguisher | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
10 | First-aid kit | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
11 | Fishing kit | 1 | 1 | ||||
12 | Flashlight | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
13 | Hatchet | 2 | 2 | ||||
14 | Heaving line | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
15 | Instruction card | 1 | 1 | ||||
16 | Jackknife | 1 | 1 | ||||
17 | Knife1 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
18 | Ladder | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
19 | Mirror, signaling | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
20 | Oars (units)5 6 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Paddles | 2 | 2 | |||||
21 | Painter | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
22 | Provisions (units per person) | 1 | 1 | ||||
23 | Pump7 | 1 | |||||
24 | Radar reflector | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
25 | Rainwater collection device | 1 | |||||
26 | Repair kit7 | 1 | 1 | ||||
27 | Sea anchor | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
28 | Searchlight | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
29 | Seasickness kit (kits/person) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
30 | Signal, smoke | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||
31 | Signal, hand flare | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | ||
32 | Signal, parachute flare | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | ||
33 | Skates and fenders8 | 1 | 1 | ||||
34 | Sponge7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
35 | Survival instructions | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
36 | Table of lifesaving signals | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
37 | Thermal protective aid (percent of persons)9 | 10% | 10% | 10% | 10% | 10% | 10% |
38 | Tool kit | 1 | 1 | ||||
39 | Towline10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
40 | Water (liters per person) | 3 | 1.5 | 3 | 1 | ||
41 | Whistle | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Notes:
1 Each liferaft approved for 13 persons or more must carry two of these items.
2 Bilge pumps are not required for boats of self-bailing design.
3 Not required for inflated or rigid/inflated rescue boats.
4 A hatchet counts toward this requirement in rigid rescue boats.
5 Oars not required on a free-fall lifeboat; a unit of oars means the number of oars specified by the manufacturer.
6 Rescue boats may substitute buoyant oars for paddles, as specified by the manufacturer.
7 Not required for a rigid rescue boat.
8 Required if specified by the boat manufacturer.
9 Sufficient thermal protective aids are required for at least 10% of the persons the survival craft is equipped to carry, but not less than two.
10 Required only if the lifeboat is also the rescue boat.
46 C.F.R. §108.575