[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 46, Volume 7]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 46CFR180.202]

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                           TITLE 46--SHIPPING
 
   CHAPTER I--COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 180--LIFESAVING EQUIPMENT AND ARRANGEMENTS--Table of Contents
 
              Subpart E--Number and Type of Survival Craft
 
Sec. 180.202  Survival craft--vessels operating on oceans routes.

    (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 
Secs. 179.310 in this chapter or 171.085 in subchapter S of this 
chapter, and the standards for subdivision in Secs. 179.220 and 179.320 
of this chapter, or the standards for subdivision and damaged stability 
in Secs. 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

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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.