{"data":{"id":"us/46-cfr-108.575","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"46 CFR 108.575","heading":"Survival craft and rescue boat equipment.","body":"(a) All lifeboat and rescue boat equipment must be as follows:\n(1) The equipment must be secured within the boat by lashings, storage in lockers, or compartments, storage in brackets or similar mounting arrangements or other suitable means.\n(2) The equipment must be secured in such a manner as not to interfere with any abandonment procedures or reduce seating capacity.\n(3) The equipment must be as small and of as little mass as possible.\n(4) The equipment must be packed in a suitable and compact form.\n(5) The equipment should be stowed so the items do not—\n(i) Reduce the seating capacity;\n(ii) Adversely affect the seaworthiness of the survival craft or rescue boat; or\n(iii) Overload the launching appliance.\n(b) Each lifeboat, rigid liferaft, and rescue boat, unless otherwise stated in this paragraph, must carry the equipment specified for it in table § 108.575(b) of this section. A lifeboat that is also a rescue boat must carry the equipment in the table column marked for a lifeboat. Each item in the table has the same description as in § 199.175 of this chapter.\nTable 108.575(b)—Survival Craft Equipment\nItem No. Item International service Other than international service\nLifeboat Rigid liferaft Rescue boat Lifeboat Rigid liferaft Rescue boat\n1 Bailer 1 1 1 1 1 1 1\n2 Bilge pump 2 1 1\n3 Boathook 2 1 2 1\n4 Bucket 3 2 1 2 1\n5 Can opener 3 3\n6 Compass 1 1 1 1\n7 Dipper 1 1\n8 Drinking cup 1 1\n9 Fire extinguisher 1 1 1 1\n10 First-aid kit 1 1 1 1 1 1\n11 Fishing kit 1 1\n12 Flashlight 1 1 1 1 1 1\n13 Hatchet 2 2\n14 Heaving line 2 1 2 2 1 2\n15 Instruction card 1 1\n16 Jackknife 1 1\n17 Knife 1 4 1 1 1 1\n18 Ladder 1 1 1 1\n19 Mirror, signaling 1 1 1 1\n20 Oars (units) 5 6 1 1\nPaddles 2 2\n21 Painter 2 1 1 2 1 1\n22 Provisions (units per person) 1 1\n23 Pump 7 1\n24 Radar reflector 1 1 1\n25 Rainwater collection device 1\n26 Repair kit 7 1 1\n27 Sea anchor 1 2 1 1 2 1\n28 Searchlight 1 1 1 1\n29 Seasickness kit (kits/person) 1 1 1 1\n30 Signal, smoke 2 2 2 1\n31 Signal, hand flare 6 6 6 6\n32 Signal, parachute flare 4 4 4 4\n33 Skates and fenders 8 1 1\n34 Sponge 7 2 2 2 2\n35 Survival instructions 1 1 1 1\n36 Table of lifesaving signals 1 1 1 1\n37 Thermal protective aid (percent of persons) 9 10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 10%\n38 Tool kit 1 1\n39 Towline 10 1 1 1 1\n40 Water (liters per person) 3 1.5 3 1\n41 Whistle 1 1 1 1 1 1\nNotes:\n1 Each liferaft approved for 13 persons or more must carry two of these items.\n2 Bilge pumps are not required for boats of self-bailing design.\n3 Not required for inflated or rigid/inflated rescue boats.\n4 A hatchet counts toward this requirement in rigid rescue boats.\n5 Oars not required on a free-fall lifeboat; a unit of oars means the number of oars specified by the manufacturer.\n6 Rescue boats may substitute buoyant oars for paddles, as specified by the manufacturer.\n7 Not required for a rigid rescue boat.\n8 Required if specified by the boat manufacturer.\n9 Sufficient thermal protective aids are required for at least 10% of the persons the survival craft is equipped to carry, but not less than two.\n10 Required only if the lifeboat is also the rescue boat.","path":["Title 46—Shipping","CHAPTER I—COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY","SUBCHAPTER I-A—MOBILE OFFSHORE DRILLING UNITS","PART 108—DESIGN AND EQUIPMENT","Subpart E—Lifesaving Equipment"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-46.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:26:22Z","sha256":"e259661f40e75d7033da74e8da50384aae15970c78f2759e3a2c332f34d2cdd2","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/46-cfr-108.570","next":"us/46-cfr-108.580"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}