Maritime safety protocols are essential for ensuring the well-being of crew members and passengers. When a person falls overboard, an immediate alarm is sounded, and maneuvers are performed to retrieve them.
The individual Rescue devices are:
- Lifebuoys
- Immersion suit
- Weather protection suit
- Terminal aids
There are also visual signal such as:
- Parachutes flares rockets
- Hand flares
- Floating smoke signals, among others.
SEARCH AND RESCUE
These actions provide immediate and effective response in search and rescue operations, in orde to safeguard human life at sea by locating people, rescues, medical assistance, maritime evacuations and support for boats.
ABANDON SHIP
The worst situation that we can find on board a boat is the abandonment of the boat. When the captain makes that decision, it is because he has exhausted all posibilities and considens that the boat is no longer a safe place for his crew, As a general rule, it is the captain who must order the abandonment of the ship.
MAN OVERBOARD
Alarm voice given when a person falls into the water. Maneover performed to recover a person fallen into the water.
FIRST AID AND MEDICAL CARE
Before leaving, it is important to supply the ship with a first aid kit. All the crew must carry their medical record, both digital history should include medications for allergies that you suffer among others. Crew first aid resources must be vital in these situations.
SIGN AND SYMBOLS
It is used in maritime navigation to transmit messages, either between two or more ships or between one ship and land or port. To this end, there are flangs of diferent shapes and colors, each representing a letter of the international alphabet, as well as number from 1 to 0.
EMERGENCY SITUATIONS
- Personal accidents
- Involuntary stranding
- Approach
- Wáter ways and flood
- Fire and explosion prevention
- Abandonment of the boat.
