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Highlights conflict between safety and security with regards to means of escape and provides advice on the methods to overcome the conflict.
Reminds industry of codes and standards which should be followed and includes key extracts from these documents for ease of reference.
Guidance on the use of barbecues and pig roasts on ships and fishing vessels, corrects information from MGN 406.
Guidance on compatibility issues concerning the joint use of immersion suits and lifejackets.
Guidelines about the unit weight of passengers and vessels where certificates state a limiting number of passengers.
Reports the findings of a series of trials and evacuation exercises undertaken or witnessed by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.
Highlights the dangers to passengers and crew of moving vehicles during operations on board roll-on and roll-off ships.
High-speed craft are known to suffer some degree of difficulty in following and quartering seas, including behaviour surfing, bow diving and broaching.
Research Project 502: Design guidance on high speed craft dynamic stability in following and quartering seas.
Guidance on stowage positions and other measures that will significantly reduce the possibility of a liferaft or an EPIRB becoming trapped.
Warns of the unseen risks from the build-up of gases in 'enclosed' spaces including refrigerated salt water (RSW) tanks.
Seismic streamers that are being towed represent a potential hazard to navigation and should be marked with tail buoys.
Offers certain Class VI passenger vessels an alternative arrangement for the carriage of man-overboard smoke signals and parachute flares.
Advises on the guidelines and specifications of hyperbaric evacuation systems to be provided for the evacuation of divers in saturation.
Amendment to MGN 83a.
Information about why MCA has withdrawn the general exemption to carry lifejackets on class V vessels on inland lakes.
This MIN is about the examination and inspection of mast and spars.
Details and images of a swivel block that failed, and advice for operators.
Details and advice about safely operating fixed CO2 fire-extinguishing system controls.
Advice for vessel owners, operators and masters about vessels with bow areas open to passengers.
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