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    Default Tender ashore

    Under international law all passengers must attend a pre sailing emergency meeting, all passengers must go to their muster station on the sounding of the general alarm.
    It was always the practice that you had to take your life jacket with you from your cabin. You would then at the end of the muster be allowed to put it on to ensure you knew how.
    That part of the muster procedure has now, under international agreement, been removed.
    Passengers are no longer requires to take their life jacket to the muster, apparently so many accidents had occurred where people had tipped up on the trailing life jacket straps.

    When sitting at anchor in port and no berthing facilities available life boats are used as tenders to take passengers ashore.
    On the last cruise we had five such ports of call and though the life boats can carry up to 150 persons only 130 are allowed on for tendering purposes.
    This can cause a delay for many as a ticketing system is put in place so first come first served.
    Some then have to wait up to four hours to get ashore.

    Speaking with one of the deck officers I asked why only four life boats use when there are 16 on board.

    He then explained that under new international laws when life boats are used as tenders there must still be enough life boats and life rafts, inflatables still on board to accommodate all passengers and crew.
    If more than four are used they would be in breech of this regulation.

    No doubt a fare cry from our time, but as they say, this is progress!!!!
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    Not sure John
    But seem to have read this before on site?
    Possibly it is now long gone though!
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    Default Re: Tender ashore

    MORE PROGRESS.



    Lifeboat Embarkation
    How many naval architects a have actually ever climbed into a large enclosed or semi-enclosed modern life boat or raft never mind being involved in a “fill to capacity” lifeboat drill embarkation test.
    The IMO Life Saving Appliances (LSA) Code 4.4.3.1 states: “Every passenger ship lifeboat shall be so arranged that it can be boarded by its full complement of persons in not more than 10 minutes from the time the instruction to board is given.” The larger cruise ships will generally be fitted with 150 person capacity lifeboats, the largest allowed by the LSA code. This in essence gives an average of four second for each person to enter and be seated in the lifeboat. Quite understandably the lifeboat embarkation tests will generally be conducted in daylight in good weather conditions and with disciplined volunteers of reasonable health and mobility.
    LSA Code 4.4.2.1 states: “No lifeboat shall be approved to accommodate more than 150 persons.” However, the codes do provide procedure for alternative design to demonstrating an equivalent level of safety for lifeboats with capacity beyond 150 persons. The lifeboat and davit manufacturer Schat-Harding has developed a 370-person mega lifeboat and davit system. The Oasis of the Seas cruise ship was the first vessel to be fitted with these new mega lifeboats.
    Demonstrating compliance with evacuation requirements through full-scale evacuation exercise is expensive and difficult to organise, and the circumstances bear little resemblance to what would happen in a true emergency driven evacuation.
    In a real emergency situation on a cruise ship lifeboat embarkation will of course take longer than the design idea of 10 minutes. A typical cruise contains a fair portion of passengers with impaired mobility. People will generally pass quickly through the doors to enter the enclosed or partially enclosed lifeboats. They will have had plenty of time to observe the doors and many will have watch their fellow passengers pass through, however, when they are actually inside it might well be quite a different matter. Many will be disorientated and stand still, some looking for the best seats, others will be looking for friend or family member to sit next. The rate of seating occupancy slows up progressively as the boat fills and random empty places become much harder to fill.
    The current SOLAS rules for lifeboat design assumes an average mass of 75kgs per person on passenger ships and 82.5kgs per person on for cargo ships all wearing lifejackets, that can be seated in a normal position without interfering with the means of propulsion or the operation of any of the lifeboat's equipment with a minimum wide of 430mmm for seating areas.
    Anthropometric data confirms that the human species is increasing in both stature and mass across the globe. For many years it has been apparent that the statue of most populations in the developing world is steadily increasing. In 2005 the US Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta quotes a figure of 86.6kg for adult men and 74.5kg for adult women.
    Assuming an cruise ship would have a fairly even split between male and female passengers this would give an average of 80.6kgs. UK Civil Aviation Authority upped the weight allowance for offshore oil workers to 98kgs per man and 77kgs per women. ClassNK has already put forward a proposal to the IMO Marine Safety Committee (MSC) to amend the SOLAS regulations to assume that the average mass of 82.5kgs for liferafts.
    It is not only the weight of peoples that is important but the people’s size that matters. The UK Health and Safety Executive produced in 2008 an information circular entitled ‘Big Persons in Lifeboats.’ This recommended that the offshore duty holder “select a small group of the largest members of the offshore workforce on the installation, and ask them to strap themselves in position on adjacent seats within the lifeboat, to confirm the ability of the seats and the seat belt/harness to accommodate them.” The International Association of Drilling Contractors has devised a ‘Gulf of Mexico Standard’ seating width of 530mm in place of the IMO minimum.
    Evacuation simulation tools mainly dealing with the assembly process, lifeboat embarkation is not explicitly modelled, due mainly to a lack of operational feedback as well as in theoretical and experimental data.
    Part of the FIRE EXIT research project funded under the European Union framework programme included a series of test undertaken at the Marine Institute (Marine Institute) of Memorial Universities Offshore Safety and Survival Centre measuring the performance of over 300 individuals through the various stages of the ship abandonment process. Test subjects used four different abandonment devices (davit launched life raft, davit launched lifeboat, inflatable slide and vertical chute)

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    Hate to tell you but with the majority of person son our last cruise you would be hard pushed to get about 120 in one life boat.
    Never seen so many obese and over weight in one place at one time.
    But by those standards it is obvious the persons responsible for drafting them have no experience of real life situations.
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