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Preparations are made on ships when heavy weather is expected. This includes securing all moveable equipment, closing hatches and doors, and lashing down cargo to prevent shifting. Precautions are taken to minimize risks to safety from structural stresses, rolling of the ship, and injury to persons onboard. The master, chief officer, engine room, and catering staff are notified. Navigation equipment is checked, and the intended route is reviewed to ensure adequate clearance from dangers considering increased motion of the ship in heavy seas.

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Prepration For Heavy Weather at ....

Preparations are made on ships when heavy weather is expected. This includes securing all moveable equipment, closing hatches and doors, and lashing down cargo to prevent shifting. Precautions are taken to minimize risks to safety from structural stresses, rolling of the ship, and injury to persons onboard. The master, chief officer, engine room, and catering staff are notified. Navigation equipment is checked, and the intended route is reviewed to ensure adequate clearance from dangers considering increased motion of the ship in heavy seas.

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PREPARATIONS FOR HEAVY WEATHER AT SEA

When heavy weather is expected, the ship would roll, pitch, yaw, sway, surge and heave. This
movement in six degrees of freedom, would pose dangers of several kinds structural stresses, rolling of
the ship resulting in shift of cargo, shift of equipment, injury to persons, damage to property, etc.
Several precautions have to be taken to minimise such risk to the safety of ship as a whole, injury to
persons on board, damage to equipment and property, etc. The precautions would generally fall into a
systematic pattern as described below:

On all types of ships:

1. Inform Master.

2. Inform Chief Officer.

3. Inform Catering staff.

4. Inform Engine Room.

5. Secure all moveable equipment on the bridge.

6. Switch on AFlPA and commence plotting. 91

7. Switch on navigation lights. Later on, clouds may result in partial darkness; rain and/or spray may
result in decrease of visibility.

8. Switch on second steering motor also.

9. Try out pneumatic whistle, electric klaxon and also foghorn.

10.Keep a record of all relevant actions/events in the Bridge Notebook.

11.lnspect the chart and ensure that the intended course is safe bearing in mind the following points:

11.1. More under keel clearance would be required because of pitching, rolling and heaving (heaving is
the bodily movement of the ship in the up and down direction due to wave action).

11.2. The ship would be more difficult to manage in bad weather (less responsive to rudder movements)
and hence it may be necessary to give dangers a wider berth than in calm weather.

11.3. Failure of main engine, failure of generators, failure of steering systems, etc, in bad weather, are
some of the possibilities that must not be overlooked. These failures may render the ship incapable of
being controlled to move along the intended path and thereby drift on to dangers.

The Chief Officer would ensure that the following precautions are taken by the Deck Department but
the OOW should be aware or all of them;

12.Anchor lashings are checked and doubled if necessary.

13.Hawse pipe covers-are shipped and secured.

14.Spurling pipes are covered and cemented over.


PREPARATIONS FOR HEAVY WEATHER AT SEA

15.The booby hatch leading into the forepeak store is closed watertight. .

16.All mooring ropes are either secured in place (short passages) or stowed away below deck (long
passages) as appropriate.

17.All movable objects on deck (including the poop deck), such as lubricating oil drums, hydraulic fluid
drums, painting raft, etc, are secured.

18.Additional lashings are put on accommodation ladders, if necessary.

19.The gripes of lifeboats are tight and that locking pins of davits are in place. Lifeboats and Iiferafts
must not have any additional lashings as they would hamper quick launching in an emergency.

20.All weathertight doors on the upper deck, leading to masthouses, accommodation, etc., are closed
effectively against entry of water.

21 The upper deck is free of rage or dirt that could choke the scuppers.

22.All portholes on the bridge front bulkhead, and those near the waterline, are closed and secured.

28. Deadlights (steel porthole covers that fit over the glass ones), where provided, should be closed and
secured.

24.All equipment and spares in storerooms, paint lockers, deck office, etc have to be secured against
shift due to the ship’s rolling in the anticipated bad weather.

25. Plugs of open lifeboats to be unshipped to prevent accumulation of water inside them. Past
experience has shown that boats have suffered permanent damage due to sagging resulting from
accumulated water inside.

26 lnform the crew to secure all loose items in their cabins.

27. The work given to cadets and deck crew should not expose them unduly to danger either directly on
deck or due to rolling while indoors.

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