USCG Exam PracticeHypothermia and cold-water survival
A wood-hulled small passenger vessel certificated for a limited coastwise route in cold water does NOT meet subdivision standards. The vessel operates more than three miles from land. Which survival craft arrangement satisfies 46 CFR §180.205?
- A. Life floats with capacity for 100% of persons on board
- B. Inflatable buoyant apparatus with capacity for 100% of persons on board
- ✓ Inflatable buoyant apparatus with capacity for at least 67% of persons on boardCorrect
- D. Life floats with capacity for 67% of persons on board
Why C is correct
46 CFR §180.205(a)(1) requires a wood vessel on a limited coastwise route in cold water (not within three miles of land per paragraph (d)) to carry inflatable buoyant apparatus with aggregate capacity for at least 67% of persons on board, if it does not meet the subdivision standards that would allow the 100% life float option under §180.205(a)(2). The 100% IBA figure does not appear in this paragraph; 67% IBA is the correct threshold for the non-subdivided wood vessel option.
Cited:46 CFR §180.205