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GMDSS - Iridium satellite services - distress and MSI – operational status and regulations.
Guidelines about avoiding the use of photochromic lenses and allowing time for dark adaptation when undertaking lookouts at night.
High-speed craft are known to suffer some degree of difficulty in following and quartering seas, including behaviour surfing, bow diving and broaching.
Guidance for actions to take in the event of explosives (including Phosphorous devices) being picked up at sea.
Guidance and information on the requirements for AIS carriage on double-ended passenger ferries, and the specific arrangements for ensuring AIS has correct heading input, regardless of direction of travel.
Advice on reducing the risk of explosion or carbon monoxide poisoning from the fitting and use of petroleum gas and diesel fuel heaters
General advice on the supply and use of working and protective gear (personal protective equipment (PPE)) on fishing vessels.
Provides advice and a reminder on the safe use and handling of gas welding and burning equipment.
Advises about potential consequences of non-payment for services provided to a ship by land earth stations operating in the INMARSAT system.
Explains how offshore supply vessels should comply with the international maritime dangerous goods (IMDG) code and chapter VII of SOLAS.
Statutory requirements for fitting and use of hinged deadlights and permanently attached storm covers at windows and side scuttles.
This MGN provides guidance on MSN 1902 and MSN 1903.
General guidance on the survey policy for 24m and over registered length fishing vessels
Guidance on safe operation of fishing vessels engaged in trawling and twin beam trawling, including scallop dredging with derricks or booms.
Guidance for ships on the requirements of the merchant shipping (prevention of air Pollution from ships) regulations 2008, as amended.
Guidance regarding the use of operating instructions and signage for fixed gas fire-extinguishing systems.
SOLAS amendments for passenger ship cabin balconies and fire protection and suppression system requirements .
Advises of the decommissioning of halon as a fire-extinguishing medium because of its damaging effect on the stratospheric ozone layer.
Draws attention to obligations, responsibilities placed upon terminal operators involved in the loading and unloading of solid bulk cargoes.
Council directive 2013/59 euratom laying down basic safety standards for the protection against the dangers arising from exposure to ionising radiation.
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