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Life Saving Appliances

Every life-saving appliance and how surveyors test you on it: personal LSA, distress signals, liferafts, lifeboats and launching — with SOLAS rules and maintenance intervals.

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01 LSA Chapter 1: Categories of LSA & Personal Life-Saving Appliances The LSA categories, lifebuoys, life jackets, immersion suits, anti-exposure suits and thermal protective aids — with the SOLAS numbers surveyors ask for. Intermediate · 8 min read · 5 sections 02 LSA Chapter 2: Pyrotechnics, VHF, SART, EPIRB & GMDSS Distress signalling equipment — rocket flares, hand flares, buoyant smoke, two-way VHF, SART, EPIRB and GMDSS — with every SOLAS number the surveyor will ask for. Intermediate · 9 min read · 4 sections 03 LSA Chapter 3: Line Throwing, EEBD & SCABA General LSA — the line throwing apparatus, the emergency escape breathing device and the self-contained breathing apparatus — with the SOLAS figures surveyors test. Intermediate · 13 min read · 5 sections 04 LSA Chapter 4: Life Rafts — Capacity, Equipment & Launching Inflatable and rigid life rafts: CO2 inflation, 25 items of equipment, painter strengths, manual, auto-HRU and davit launching — with the SOLAS numbers surveyors ask for. Intermediate · 13 min read · 4 sections 05 LSA Chapter 5: Lifeboats — Types, Engine, Davit & Drills Open, enclosed and freefall lifeboats: compression-ignition engines, post-2014 hooks, 30 items of equipment, gravity davits and weekly/monthly maintenance. Advanced · 13 min read · 5 sections