Div 10Watertight Doors—Signals and Communications.

Division 10.—Watertight Doors—Signals and Communications.

Watertight doors—signals.

41.—(1.) Each sliding watertight door in a ship shall be connected with an indicator at each position at which the door may be operated, other than at the door itself, showing whether the door is open or closed.

(2.) A control of a sliding watertight door in a ship, being a control which operates the door by power, shall be connected to a warning device which, upon any movement of the control to close the door, will give an audible warning at the door in sufficient time before the closing of the door to enable the movement of persons and articles away from the door.

(3.) If a watertight door on a ship is not capable of being operated from a central control, there shall be installed in the ship a telegraph, telephone or other means of communication by means of which an order to close the door may be promptly communicated from the bridge.

Bunker doors to be kept accessible.

42. The master of a ship shall cause a watertight door fitted in a bulkhead between a permanent bunker and a reserve bunker in the ship, not being a door referred to in sub-regulation (6.) of regulation 38 of these Regulations, to be kept accessible at all times.