8.7.1 Embarkation stations should be readily accessible
from accommodation and work areas. If the designated muster stations
are other than the passenger spaces, the muster stations should be
readily accessible from the passenger spaces, and the embarkation
stations should be readily accessible from the muster stations.
8.7.2 Evacuation routes, exits and embarkation
points should comply with the requirements of 4.7.
8.7.3 Alleyways, stairways and exits giving access
to the muster and embarkation stations should be adequately illuminated
by lighting supplied from the main and emergency source of electrical
power required by chapter 12.
8.7.4 Where davit-launched survival craft are
not fitted, MES or equivalent means of evacuation should be provided
in order to avoid persons entering the water to board survival craft.
Such MES or equivalent means of evacuation should be so designed as
to enable persons to board survival craft in all operational conditions
and also in all conditions of flooding after receiving damage to the
extent prescribed in chapter 2.
8.7.5 Subject to survival craft and rescue boat
embarkation arrangements being effective within the environmental
conditions in which the craft is permitted to operate and in all undamaged
and prescribed damage conditions of trim and heel, where the freeboard
between the intended embarkation position and the waterline is not
more than 1.5 m, the Administration may accept a system where persons
board liferafts directly.
8.7.6 Rescue boat embarkation arrangements should
be such that the rescue boat can be boarded and launched directly
from the stowed position and recovered rapidly when loaded with its
full complement of persons and equipment.
8.7.7 A safety knife should be provided at each
MES embarkation station.