NVIC 04-14 Task 3.5.B

Manage survivors and survival craft after abandoning ship

SCRB-X3.5 Method of helicopter rescue

On a Coast Guard examination or in an approved or accepted course,

the candidate describes or selects the answer that describes helicopter rescues from a life raft and from the water.

The candidate describes helicopter rescues from a life raft and from the water, including:

1. Visual and radio communications with the helicopter;

   a. effects of the helicopter downdraft on the life raft including:

   b. the possibility of capsizing;

   c. the possible need to deflate the roof of the life raft;

2. Precautions when handling devices lowered from the helicopter;
3. Use of rescue devices that may be deployed from the helicopter;
4. Order of departure of survivors from life raft;
5. Not securing devices from the helicopter to the life raft; and

6. Information to pass on to helicopter crew upon rescue, such as;

   a. injuries aboard; and

   b. locations of other groups of survivors.