10.5.1 Each survival craft should be stowed:
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.1 so that neither the survival craft nor its
stowage arrangements will interfere with the operation of any other
survival craft or rescue boat at any other launching station;
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.2 as near the water surface as is safe and practicable;
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.3 in a state of continuous readiness so that
two crew members can carry out preparations for embarkation and launching
in less than 5 min;
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.4 fully equipped as required by chapter III of
the 1974 SOLAS Convention; however, in the case of units operating
in areas such that, in the opinion of the Administration, certain
items of equipment are unnecessary, the Administration may allow these
items to be dispensed with;
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.5 as far as practicable, in a secure and sheltered
position and protected from damage by fire and explosion.
10.5.2 Where appropriate, the unit should be so
arranged that lifeboats, in their stowed positions, are protected
from damage by heavy seas.
10.5.3 Lifeboats should be stowed attached to
launching appliances.
10.5.4 Liferafts should be so stowed as to permit
manual release from their securing arrangements.
10.5.5 Davit-launched liferafts should be stowed
within reach of the lifting hooks. unless some means of transfer is
provided which is not rendered inoperable within the limits of trim
and list prescribed in chapter 3 for any damaged condition or by unit
motion or power failure.
10.5.6 Every literaft, other than those in 10.2.3.
should be stowed with the weak link of its painter permanently attached
to the unit and with a float-free arrangement complying with the requirements
of regulation III/38.6 so that the liferaft floats free and, if inflatable,
inflates automatically when the unit sinks.