60Openings to be kept closed at sea

60 Openings to be kept closed at sea

 60.1 The master of a ship must ensure that each of the following openings on the ship are closed watertight and secured before the ship leaves a berth or anchorage:

(a) any watertight door in a watertight bulkhead separating cargo spaces or separating a cargo space from a passenger space;

(b) any watertight door that does not comply with paragraphs 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 and 6 of Regulation 13 of Chapter II-1 of SOLAS;

(c) any sidescuttle that:

 (i) is below the freeboard deck; and

 (ii) has its lowest point no more than 1.4 m plus 2.5% of the breadth of the ship above the waterline when the ship is first afloat in seawater on proceeding to sea;

(d) any sidescuttle that is not accessible while the ship is at sea, and its deadlights;

(e) any gangway port, cargo port or coaling port or similar side opening below the margin line, or below the freeboard deck in a ship.

 60.2 A person must not open an opening mentioned in subsection 60.1 when the ship is at sea.

 60.3 Subsection 60.4 applies to each sidescuttle to which paragraph 60.1(c) applies when the ship is floating at its deepest subdivision load line.

 60.4 The Manager, Ship Inspection and Registration may set a limiting mean draft at which the sidescuttle must have its sills:

(a) above the line parallel to the bulkhead deck at side; and

(b) with its lowest point 1.4 m plus 2.5% of the breadth of the ship above the waterline corresponding to the limiting mean draft.

 60.5 The master of a ship that complies with the limiting mean draft may:

(a) take the ship from port without closing and locking the sidescuttle; and

(b) open the sidescuttle at sea during the next voyage to port.

 60.6 In a tropical zone, the limiting mean draft may be increased by 0.3m.

 60.7 In this section

bulkhead deck means the uppermost continuous deck of a ship to which all main transverse watertight bulkheads are carried.