11.3 Emergency controls
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11.3 Emergency controls

  11.3.1 In all craft, the station or stations in the operating compartment from which control of craft manoeuvring and/or of its main machinery is exercised should be provided, within easy reach of the crew member at that station, with controls for use in an emergency to:

  • .1 activate fixed fire-extinguishing systems:

  • .2 close ventilation openings and stop ventilating machinery supplying spaces covered by fixed fire-extinguishing systems, if not incorporated in .1:

  • .3 shut off fuel supplied to machinery in main and auxiliary machinery spaces:

  • .4 disconnect all electrical power sources from the normal power distribution system (the operating control should be guarded to reduce the risk of inadvertent or careless operation); and

  • .5 stop main engine(s) and auxiliary machinery.

  11.3.2 Where control of propulsion and manoeuvring is provided at stations outside the operating compartment, such stations should have direct communication with the operating compartment which should be a continuously manned control station.


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