Exercise 6. Answer the following questions

1.What are the main groups of life-saving equipment?

2. What do personal life-saving appliances include?

3. Where is life jacket kept?

4. What types of life jacket do you know?

5. What is rigid life jacket made from?

6. What are the lifejackets fitted with?

7. What are the most basic requirements for inflatable life-jacket?

8. How does the survival suit protect the wearer?

9. What is survival suit made from?

10. What does the survival suit allow the wearer?

11. What are cargo and passenger vessels equipped with?

12. What can you tell about life-bouy?

Exercise 7. Find the equivalents

Life saving equipment Navigating bridge Boat deck Strap Reflective strip Gloves Zip Vertical ladder Signal whistle Fresh water

Пресная вода спасательные средства сигнальный свисток шлюпочная палуба трап молния (застёжка) ремень, ремешок перчатки отражательная направляющая лента навигационный мостик

Exercise 8. Complete the text below with the appropriate words:

*tackled *enforced *carry *sprayed *extinguished *confined *smothered *breaks *out *equipped

Types of fire

The regulations of the SOLAS Convention are 1.__________ by means of surveys and

certificates. Before leaving the port the ship must be fully 2.__________ for firefighting,

communication with shore or other ships and must 3.__________ enough lifeboats

to accommodate all persons aboard. Various types of fire are 4.__________ with

different types of fire extinguishers or fixed fire systems. Oil fires must be 5.__________

with froth or foam. Engine fires are 6. .__________ with foam, too. If the fire

7.__________ it must be 8.__________ first and then 9.__________.

Exercise 9. Supply the suitable adjectives:

*climbing *double *floating *closable *oceangoing *rubber *identical *inflatable

*suitable

Liferafts

The most 1.__________ rescue device known today is the 2.__________ liferaft. The

3.__________ raft is lashed on board by means of a slip hook. A release line extends

from the casing (valise). It must always be fastened on board the ship and it also acts as a

painter.

The equipment is not 4.__________ in all types of liferafts, but for 5.__________ ships

the requirements are: inflatable 6.__________ floor, quoit with line, lighting with saltwater

activated battery, bag with repair kit, bellows with bag, special 7.__________

knife, instructions, sea anchor, paddles, carbon dioxide cylinder, rainwater collector with

water tap, 8.__________ entrance, 9.__________ ladders at entrances, emergency

kit, etc.

Exercise 10. Supply the correct form of the verbs in brackets:

Fire-fighting procedure

There are three basic steps in (fight) 1.__________ fires on board or any fire: Locate!Confine! Extinguish! In case of a fire on board you (determine) 2.__________ the following points:

l. Where the fire (be) 3.__________? Not necessarily where the smoke (come from) 4.__________.

2. What (burn) 5.__________?

3. What (be) 6.__________ the extent of the fire?

4. What other combustibles (be) 7.__________ in the vicinity?

5. What vents and other channels there (be) 8.__________ that (facilitate) 9.__________the spreading of the fire?

6. What is the best means to:

a. (prevent) 10._________ the spread of the fire,

b. (put out) 11._________ the fire,

c. (avoid) 12._________ affecting the stability and buoyancy of the ship.

Exercise 11. Supply the right preposition:

Solas convention - regulation 10 (Distress Messages)

a.) The master 1._____ a ship 2._____ sea, 3._____ receiving a signal 4._____ any

source that a ship or aircraft or survival craft thereof is 5._____ distress, is bound to proceed with all speed 6._____ the assistance of the persons 7._____ distress

informing them if possible that he is doing so Mayday received. I am coming 8._____your assistance). If he is unable or 9._____ the special circumstances 10._____ the case, considers it unreasonable or unnecessary proceed 11._____ their assistance, he must enter 12._____ the logbook the reason 13._____ failing to proceed 14._____the assistance 15._____ the persons 16._____ distress.

b.) The master 1._____ a ship 2._____ distress, after consultation, so far as may be

possible, 3._____ the masters of the ships which answer his call 4._____ assistance

has the right to requisition such one or more 5._____ those ships as he considers best able to render assistance, and it shall be the duty of the master or masters 6._____ the ship or ships requisitioned to comply 7._____ the requisition, therefore continuing to proceed 8._____ all speed 9._____ the assistance 10._____ persons 11._____ distress.

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