1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its eighty-fifth
session (26 November to 5 December 2008), approved the Guidelines
for flooding detection systems on passenger ships, as set out in the
annex, following the recommendations made by the Sub-Committee on
Stability and Load Lines and on Fishing Vessels Safety, at its fifty-first
session. The Guidelines provide guidance for the flooding detection
systems for watertight spaces below the bulkhead deck, required by
SOLAS regulation II-1/22-1 for
passenger ships carrying 36 or more persons and constructed on or
after 1 July 2010.
2 Member Governments are invited to use the annexed
Guidelines for flooding detection systems on passenger ships when
applying the relevant provisions of SOLAS regulation II-1/22-1 and to bring
them to the attention of all parties concerned.