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NavalMonthly Drill Contingencies (46 CFR 28.270)
Twenty flashcards on the emergencies every fishing crew practices each month, with the posted fire and flooding steps.
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- How often must a fishing vessel hold drills and instruction?
- At least once each month, for every person on board.
- Who must make sure the monthly drills happen?
- The master or individual in charge of the vessel.
- May instruction happen apart from the drills?
- Yes, at other times and places, as long as everyone knows their duties for each contingency.
- Which contingency is about a person in the water?
- Recovering an individual from the water.
- What fire contingency must everyone know?
- Fighting a fire in different locations on board.
- Which contingency covers water coming aboard by accident?
- Minimizing the effects of unintentional flooding.
- Which contingency covers leaving the vessel?
- Abandoning the vessel.
- Which contingency covers boats and rafts?
- Launching survival craft and recovering lifeboats and rescue boats.
- Which gear must everyone practice putting on?
- Immersion suits and other wearable personal flotation devices.
- When are a fireman's outfit and breathing apparatus part of the drill?
- When the vessel is equipped with them: donning the outfit and a self-contained breathing apparatus.
- Which contingency covers calling for help?
- Making a voice radio distress call and using visual distress signals.
- Which two alarm items close the list?
- Activating the general alarm, and reporting alarm and fire detection systems that do not work.
- First posted step against a fire aboard?
- Cut off its air: close hatches, ports, doors, ventilators and similar openings.
- What about the electrical systems feeding the space?
- De-energize them, if possible.
- What goes on a fire in ordinary combustible materials?
- A portable fire extinguisher or water, right away.
- Where must water never be used?
- On electrical fires.
- What if the fire is in a machinery space?
- Shut off the fuel supply and ventilation and activate the fixed extinguishing system, if installed.
- What if the crew cannot control the fire?
- Notify the Coast Guard and nearby vessels at once; move people away in lifejackets and prepare to abandon if necessary.
- First posted step for rough weather or flooding?
- Close all watertight and weathertight doors, hatches and airports.
- How does the crew protect stability?
- Keep bilges dry with power pump, hand pump and buckets; use fire pumps as bilge pumps if possible.
Official sources
U.S. Coast Guard, via eCFR
46 CFR Part 28: Requirements for Commercial Fishing Industry Vessels
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