船舶遭難時の人命安全に関する調査研究 : 遭難船舶の救命パターンと救命効果

抄録

To increase the safety of life at sea is to decrease the risk of the losses of the vessel and the life and the effectiveness of lifesaving systems will be affected from time factor of the survival operation. The main purpose of this paper is to develop the relation between the use of lifesaving appliances and vessel's casualties. The study and the investigation are given in this paper as follows; 1) Suitable lifesaving systems for survival operation are varied by the kind of the sea casualty, size and kind of the vessel, ability of the survivor, the circumstance and the envilonment of the vessel faced with. 2) The time of evacuation and retrieval is varied by the kind of the sea casualty and the lifesaving operation. 3) To succeed the survival operation, lifesaving appliances must be considered from the view point of each stage of the survival operation and the technical level of the seafarer. 4) The effectiveness of lifesaving systems must be considered by the use of lifesaving appliances and the time of evacuation and retrieval. The use of the inflatable liferaft is much effective than the lifeboat.