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SOLAS

CHAPTER-V
REGULATION 4 - Navigational warnings
• Each Contracting Government shall take all
steps necessary to ensure that,
• when intelligence of any dangers is
received from whatever reliable source, it
• shall be promptly brought to the knowledge
of those concerned and
• communicated to other interested
Governments.*
REGULATION 5
Meteorological services and warnings
1 Contracting Governments undertake to encourage the collection of
meteorological data by ships at sea and to arrange for their examination,
dissemination and exchange in the manner most suitable for the purpose of
aiding navigation***. Administrations shall encourage the use of
meteorological instruments of a high degree of accuracy, and shall facilitate
the checking of such instruments upon request. Arrangements may be made
by appropriate national meteorological services for this checking to be
undertaken, free of charge to the ship.
2 In particular, Contracting Governments undertake to carry out, in cooperation,
the following meteorological arrangements:
.1 to warn ships of gales, storms and tropical cyclones by the issue of
information in text and, as far as practicable graphic form, using the
appropriate shore-based facilities for terrestrial and space
Radio communications services.
.2 to issue, at least twice daily, by terrestrial and space
Radio communication services, as appropriate, weather information
suitable for shipping containing data, analyses, warnings and forecasts
of weather, waves and ice. Such information shall be transmitted in text
and, as far as practicable, graphic form including meteorological
analysis and prognosis charts transmitted by facsimile or in digital form
for reconstitution on board the ship's data processing system.
.3 to prepare and issue such publications as may be necessary for the
efficient conduct of meteorological work at sea and to arrange, if
practicable, for the publication and making available of daily weather
charts for the information of departing ships.
.4 to arrange for a selection of ships to be equipped with tested marine
meteorological instruments (such as a barometer, a barograph, a
psychrometer, and suitable apparatus for measuring sea temperature)
for use in this service, and to take, record and transmit meteorological
observations at the main standard times for surface synoptic
observations (i.e. at least four times daily, whenever circumstances
permit) and to encourage other ships to take, record and transmit
observations in a modified form, particularly when in areas where
shipping is sparse.
.5 to encourage companies to involve as many of their ships as
practicable in the making and recording of weather observations; these
observations to be transmitted using the ship's terrestrial or space
radiocommunications facilities for the benefit of the various national
meteorological services.
.6 the transmission of these weather observations is free of charge to the
ships concerned.
REGULATION 14
Ship’s Manning
1- Contracting Governments undertake, each for its national ships, to maintain, or, if it is
necessary, to adopt, measures for the purpose of ensuring that, from the point of view of
safety of life at sea, all ships shall be sufficiently and efficiently manned.*
2 - Every ship to which chapter I applies shall be provided with an appropriate minimum safe
manning document or equivalent issued by the Administration as evidence of the minimum
safe manning considered necessary to comply with the provisions of paragraph 1.
3 - On all ships, to ensure effective crew performance in safety matters, a working language
shall be established and recorded in the ship's log-book.
The company, as defined in regulation IX/1, or the master, as appropriate, shall determine the
appropriate working language. Each seafarer shall be required to understand and, where
appropriate, give orders and instructions and to report back in that language. If the working
language is not an official language of the State whose flag the ship is entitled to fly, all
plans and lists required to be posted shall include a translation into the working language.
4 -On ships to which chapter I applies, English shall be used on the bridge as the working
language for bridge-to-bridge and bridge-to-shore safety communications as well as for
communications on board between the pilot and bridge watchkeeping personnel**, unless
those directly involved in the
communication speak a common language other than English.
* Refer to the Principles of Safe Manning adopted by the Organization by resolution
A.890(21).
** The IMO Standard Marine Communications Phrases (SMCPs) (MSC/Circ.794), as
amended,
may be used in this respect.
• Reg 19 Carriage requirements for ship borne navigational systems and equipment
• Standard Mag Compass
• Spare mag Compass
• Means to take Bearing over 360deg
• Means to correct Compass bearings to True
• Nautical charts and publication for the intended Voyage
• Back up system for Electronic Chart System
• Global satellite system or terrestrial radio navigation system for continuous update of positions
• An external Sound reception system if fully enclosed bridge
• Telephone or other means of communicating heading information to the emergency steering
position
• Day light signalling lamp
• 9 Ghz RADAR
• AIS
• Gyro compass readable by helmsman
• Gyro repeater at the emergency steering position
• Rudder, Propeller, Thrust, pitch Indicators
• 3 GHZ RADAR
• VDR
• ARPA capable of 20 targets with trial manoeuvre functions
• Autopilot
• Rate of turn Indicator
• Speed distance indicator
REGULATION 33
Distress messages: Obligations and
procedures
1 The master of a ship at sea which is in a position to be able to provide
assistance on receiving a signal from any source that persons are in distress
at sea, is bound to proceed with all speed to their assistance, if possible
informing them or the search and rescue service that the ship is doing so. If
the ship receiving the distress alert is unable or, in the special circumstances
of the case, considers it unreasonable or unnecessary to proceed to their
assistance, the master must enter in the log-book the reason for failing to
proceed to the assistance of the persons in distress, taking into account the
recommendation of the Organization, to inform the appropriate search and
rescue service accordingly.
2 The master of a ship in distress or the search and rescue service concerned,
after consultation, so far as may be possible, with the masters of ships which
answer the distress alert, has the right to requisition one or more of those
ships as the master of the ship in distress or the search and rescue service
considers best able to render assistance, and it shall be the duty of the
master or masters of the ship or ships requisitioned to comply with the
requisition by continuing to proceed with all speed to the assistance of
persons in distress.
3
Masters of ships shall be released from the obligation imposed by
paragraph
1 on learning that their ships have not been requisitioned and that one or
more other ships have been requisitioned and are complying with the
requisition. This decision shall, if possible be communicated to the other
requisitioned ships and to the search and rescue service.
4 The master of a ship shall be released from the obligation imposed by
paragraph 1 and, if his ship has been requisitioned, from the obligation
imposed by paragraph 2 on being informed by the persons in distress or
by
the search and rescue service or by the master of another ship which has
reached such persons that assistance is no longer necessary.
5 The provisions of this regulation do not prejudice the Convention for the
Unification of Certain Rules of Law Relating to Assistance and Salvage at
Sea, signed at Brussels on 23 September 1910, particularly the
obligation to
render assistance imposed by article 11 of that Convention.*
REGULATION 34 - Safe navigation and avoidance of dangerous situations
1 Prior to proceeding to sea, the master shall ensure that the intended voyage
has been planned using the appropriate nautical charts and nautical
publications for the area concerned, taking into account the guidelines and
recommendations developed by the Organization.*
2 The voyage plan shall identify a route which:
.1 takes into account any relevant ships' routeing systems;
.2 ensures sufficient sea room for the safe passage of the ship throughout
the voyage;
.3 anticipates all known navigational hazards and adverse weather
conditions; and
.4 takes into account the marine environmental protection measures that
apply, and avoids as far as possible actions and activities which could
cause damage to the environment.
3 The owner, the charterer, or the company, as defined in regulation IX/1,
operating the ship or any other person, shall not prevent or restrict the
master of the ship from taking or executing any decision which, in the
master's professional judgement, is necessary for safe navigation and
protection of the marine environment.

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