46 CFR 180.202
§ 180.202 Survival craft—vessels operating on oceans routes.
United States · 46 CFR — Shipping · Status: effective
Cite this
- Citation
- 46 CFR 180.202, § 180.202 Survival craft—vessels operating on oceans routes, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/230767
- Permanent ID
ys:prov:230767@1- SHA-256
a7fd986148689f77ea622aa78e9dd64d25d9204d59bafbe95e146b9c954d8ff5
The hash is SHA-256 of this version's text, with every run of whitespace collapsed to a single space and the ends trimmed. The ID always leads back here, and checking it says whether the text you cited is still the current version.
Full text
(a) Each vessel certificated to operate on an oceans route in cold water must either:
(1) Be provided with inflatable buoyant apparatus of an aggregate capacity that will accommodate at least 100% of the total number of persons permitted on board; or
(2) Meet either the standards for collision bulkheads in § 179.310 in this chapter or § 171.085 in subchapter S of this chapter, and the standards for subdivision in §§ 179.220 and 179.320 of this chapter, or the standards for subdivision and damaged stability in §§ 171.070 through 171.073 and 171.080 in subchapter S of this chapter, as appropriate, and be provided with life floats of an aggregate capacity that will accommodate at least 100% of the total number of persons permitted on board.
(b) Each vessel certificated to operate on an oceans route in warm water must either:
(1) Be provided with inflatable buoyant apparatus of an aggregate capacity that will accommodate at least 67% of the total number of persons permitted on board; or
(2) Be provided with life floats of an aggregate capacity that will accommodate at least 100% of the total number of persons permitted on board.
Legislative history
This is a federal regulation, adopted through agency rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act — not enacted by a recorded vote of Congress.