Personal Survival Techniques. Test 4 – Online Maritime Tests

Which one of the listed requirements regarding thermal protective aids do not correspond to present regulations? The thermal protective aids shall:

permit the wearer to swim a short distance through the water and board a survival craft
be unpacked and easily donned in a survival craft without assistance
cover the whole body except the face of a person wearing a lifejacket
permit the wearer to remove it in water in not more than two minutes

Falls used in launching shall be turned end for end at an interval of not more than X months and to be renewed not later than every Y years, where the intervals are:

30 months / 5 years
6 months / 2 years
20 months / 3 years
12 months / 4 years

How many pyrotechnic signals to be in each lifeboat?

10 Rocket parachute flares / 12 hand flares / 5 buoyant smoke signals
4 Rocket parachute flares / 6 hand flares / 2 buoyant smoke signals
6 Rocket parachute flares / 6 hand Flares / 6 buoyant smoke signals
8 Rocket parachute flares / 2 hand flares / 6 buoyant smoke signals

When reasonable and practicable, how often shall rescue boats be launched with their assigned crew aboard and manouvered in the water?

Every month
Every week
Every two weeks
Every three months

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