Sea Survival Handbook: the Complete Guide to Survival at Sea 9781602396951, 9781626369788, 162636978X

Table of contents :
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
CHAPTER 1 : Before you go out
Make a plan
Clothing
Immersion (Survival) suits
Care and maintenance of boat and equipment
CHAPTER 2 : Weather
Local winds
Fog
Beaufort scale
CHAPTER 3 : Preparing for heavy weather
Shortening sail
Storm sails
Breaking waves
CHAPTER 4 : Handling heavy weather
Running for shelter
Riding it out at sea
Damage control and repair
CHAPTER 5 : Lifejackets and buoyancy aids
Buoyancy Aids
Lifejackets
Gas lifejackets
Lifejacket fittings
The effect of wind and waves. Donning a gas-inflated lifejacketCHAPTER 6 : MOB prevention
Clipping on
CHAPTER 7 : MOB
MOB search patterns
Sailing yacht MOB maneuver
Powerboat MOB maneuver
MOB recovery methods
Recovery methods for sailing yachts
Recovery method for motorboats
CHAPTER 8 : Liferafts
Basic leisure rafts
Inflatable Active Survival Craft
Liferaft standards
Which size raft?
Typical leisure raft
ISAF, ISO 9650 Part 1 and SOLAS
Canister v Valise
Liferaft stowage
Maintenance
Renting
Hydrostatic release units (HRUs)
How an HRU works
HRU safety checks
Liferaft packs
Grab bag. CHAPTER 9 : Fire controlFire prevention
Fire triangle
Fire extinguishers
Maintenance
Firefighting
CHAPTER 10 : Raising the alarm
Flares
Raising the alarm
CHAPTER 11 : When to abandon ship
What you need to survive
I will survive!
When disaster strikes
CHAPTER 12 : Abandoning ship
Drills for abandoning ship
Launching and entering liferaft
Entering the water
Protection
Keeping cool
CHAPTER 13 : Survival in cold water
Diving reflex
Cold shock
Swim failure
Hypothermia
Huddle
CHAPTER 14 : First aid
Heat exhaustion
Heat stroke
Hypothermia
Near-drowning
Secondary drowning. Heart attackPanic attack
Shock
Severe bleeding
Frostbite
Immersion foot
Seasickness
Pre-rescue collapse
Circum-rescue collapse and hydrostatic squeeze
Post-rescue
CHAPTER 15 : Life-saving signals
Search-and-rescue unit replies
Surface-to-air signals
Air-to-surface direction signals
Shore-to-ship signals
Air-to-surface replies
Surface-to-air replies
CHAPTER 16: Rescue
Rescue by lifeboat
Rescue by ship
Rescue by helicopter
GLOSSARY
INDEX.

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