BML Revision: Emergency Action (Section 10)

Revision card 11 of 12 — Boatmaster's Licence, Tier 1 Level 1 Underpinning Knowledge, MSN 1853 Annex 9.

What You Need to Know

• Contingency plans and actions for: imminent collision, collision, grounding, beaching, flooding, man overboard, abandon ship, fire
• How to identify the nature of an emergency and take initial action per the vessel's own emergency procedure
• Communicating information to the right people, promptly and accurately
• Recognising an alarm signal and taking the correct action, including raising the alarm by the most appropriate method available
• Making distress and emergency alerts, including the equipment used
• How to avoid sending false alerts, and the remedial action if one is sent anyway
• Basic Search and Rescue arrangements, including SARCo plans as applicable to inland waterways and limited coastal distances

Quick Self-Check

• Walk through your immediate actions for a man-overboard, start to finish, without checking a book.
• What do you do if you realise you've sent a false distress alert?

Test yourself: Safety Knowledge Checks.

Related Reading

• Fram of Shieldaig — a real MOB where emergency response speed was the deciding factor