Onboard preparations and proceeding for search and rescue:

Post extra look out.

Inform C/E to st-by engine, but at full sea speed.

Inform owner/ charterer about the deviation.

Note down deviation time, position and ROBs.

Assign duties to officers.

Instruct C/O to prepare:

	Ship’s hospital to receive casualties and prepare stretchers, blankets, foods, medicines.
	Prepare rescue boats and ready for immediate launching.
	Prepare rescue boat crews and check communication.
	Extra life jackets, life buoys, buoyant life lines, line throwing apparatus readily available.
	Rig guest warp, accommodation ladder, scrambling nets and life lines running from bow to astern at the water edge on both sides.
	Prepare crane/derricks with cargo nets for recovery of survivors.
	Test search lights, signaling lamps, torches.

Instruct 2^nd officer to:

	Plot both vessels’ positions and establish course to rendezvous at maximum speed and update ETA.
	Plot other vessels within the search vicinity together with their respective movements.
	Change over to manual steering.
	Plot search pattern.
	Keep continuous radar watch.
	Track all vessels in the vicinity.

Instruct 3^rd officer to:

	Contact RCC via CRS
	Maintain communication radio watch and update distress information.
	Monitor weather report.