The Singapore Government has notified of the requirements of carriage of immersion suits for the stored position of the additional liferaft required by SOLAS Reg.III/31.1.4 mentioned in SOLAS Reg.III/32.3.3 by Res.MSC216(82) for that flagged ships.
In response, ClassNK Technical Information No.TEC-0667 Paragraph 2 item (6) & (8) "the requirement of additional immersion suits for Singapore flag" issued on 6 July 2006 has been modified as follows.


(6) At least two sets of immersion suits are to be provided for the stored position of the additional liferaft required by SOLAS Reg.III/31.1.4.
(8) If the forecastle deck store is a work station where crew members are working in the store, sufficient immersion suits are required to be provided for these crew members. However, if crew members simply go to the forecastle deck store to get anything stored there, it is not necessary to provide immersion suits in that location.

If a forward deck store close to where the forward liferaft required by SOLAS Reg.III/31.1.4 is stowed is designed as a work station, the immersion suits provided for the forward liferafts can be used to comply, in part or in total depending on the number of people normally working there, with the provision of immersion suits at the forward deck store.



For any questions about the above, please contact:

NIPPON KAIJI KYOKAI (ClassNK)
Material and Equipment Department, Administration Center, Head Office
Address: 4-7 Kioi-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8567, Japan
Tel.: +81-3-5226-2020
Fax: +81-3-5226-2057
E-mail: eqd@classnk.or.jp