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rescue boat, communication with the deck and bridge should be checked.
Working lifejackets that do not restrict free movement should be worn. Immersion suits should be worn where there is a risk of hypothermia.
Rescue boat crews should receive training on correct techniques for retrieving persons from the water without sustaining injury.
Each ship should have a contingency plan in the event that someone falls overboard. The plan should take into account the particular characteristics of the ship, the life-saving equipment available and the number of seafarers. For example, a typical drill could test the action taken if the bridge watch keeping officer observes someone falling from the main deck into the sea. This would include:
       executing a Williamson turn or other ship's turn as appropriate;
       dropping the bridge wing quick-release lifebuoy;
       sounding the general or emergency squad alarm;
       announcing the type of emergency over the public address system so that the rescue boat can be prepared;
       assigning a person to the wheel and posting lookouts;
       radar "marking" of the man overboard position;
       initiating any communication such as a "Pan Pan Pan" message; and
       positioning the ship to make a lee and launching the rescue boat.
It may take the person in command a few minutes to reach the bridge before taking over the operation and therefore some decisions may need to be made before he or she reaches the bridge.
When a person witnesses someone falling overboard, he or she should throw a life buoy into the water, preferable one equipped with a light. Inform the bridge immediately by any means possible and call out for assistance. Keep the victim under surveillance if possible.
When a person is reported missing or unaccounted for, it will be presumed that the individual has been lost overboard and the circumstance becomes a search and rescue issue.
All ships must carry an up-to-date copy of Volume III of the International Aeronautical and Maritime Search and Rescue (IAMSAR) Manual. Procedures provided in the IAMSAR Manual should be adopted, especially if the search is carried out with other ships.

4.7              Helicopter operations
In accordance with Marine Order 57 (Helicopter Operations) the person in command may permit a vessel-helicopter operation to be conducted only if the vessel has arrangements in place that:
       provide for emergency evacuation of people from the vessel; and
       do not interfere with the normal operations of the vessel; and
       are at least as effective in ensuring safety as the arrangements recommended in the International Chamber of Shipping Guide to Helicopter/Ship Operations for the kind of vessel–helicopter operations to be conducted.
The vessel arrangements must include
       the equipment necessary for the