{"data":{"id":"us/46-cfr-133.175","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"46 CFR 133.175","heading":"Survival craft and rescue boat equipment.","body":"(a) All 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 rigid liferaft and rescue boat, unless otherwise stated in this paragraph, must carry the equipment specified for it in table 133.175 of this section. Each item in the table has the same description as in § 199.175 of this chapter.\nNote:\nItem numbers in the first column of Table 133.175 are not consecutive because not all of the items listed in section 199.175 are required on OSVs.\nTable 133.175—Survival Craft Equipment\nItem No. Item Oceans Coastwise\nRigid liferaft (SOLAS A Pack) Rescue boat Rigid liferaft (SOLAS B Pack) Rescue boat\n1 Bailer 1 1 1 1 1\n3 Boathook 1 1\n4 Bucket 2 1 1\n5 Can opener 3\n6 Compass 1 1\n8 Drinking cup 1\n9 Fire extinguisher 1 1\n10 First-aid kit 1 1 1 1\n11 Fishing kit 1\n12 Flashlight 1 1 1 1\n14 Heaving line 1 2 1 2\n15 Instruction card 1 1\n17 Knife 1 3 1 1 1 1\n18 Ladder 1 1\n19 Mirror, signalling 1 1\n20 Oars, units 4 1 1\nPaddles 2 2\n21 Painter 1 1 1 1\n22 Provisions (units per person) 1\n23 Pump 5 1 1\n24 Radar reflector 1 1 1 1\n26 Repair kit 5 1 1\n27 Sea anchor 2 1 2 1\n28 Searchlight 1 1\n29 Seasickness kit (units per person) 1 1\n30 Signal, smoke 2 1\n31 Signal, hand flare 6 6\n32 Signal, parachute flare 4 4\n34 Sponge 5 2 2 2 2\n35 Survival instructions 1 1\n36 Table of lifesaving signals 1 1\n37 Thermal protective aids (percent of persons) 6 10% 10% 10% 10%\n39 Towline 1 1\n40 Water (liters per person) 1.5 1\n41 Whistle 1 1 1 1\nNotes:\n1 Each liferaft equipped for 13 persons or more must carry two of these items.\n2 Not required for inflated or rigid-inflated rescue boats.\n3 A hatchet counts towards this requirement in rigid rescue boats.\n4 Oars are not required on a free-fall lifeboat; a unit of oars means the number of oars specified by the boat manufacturer.\n5 Not required for a rigid rescue boat.\n6 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.","path":["Title 46—Shipping","CHAPTER I—COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY","SUBCHAPTER L—OFFSHORE SUPPLY VESSELS","PART 133—LIFESAVING SYSTEMS","Subpart B—Requirements for All OSVs"],"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":"cc36282ef47800cd3bacc98bbd0c8aeb63d9483aa8f0a2caebc538c67f374eb5","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/46-cfr-133.170","next":"us/46-cfr-134.100"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}