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These are the new on-board equipment to be had on boats flying the Italian flag. We explain what’s new and how to get in compliance to avoid nasty surprises.
Mandatory endowments
Safety Equipment-Despite the premise always being to “simplify the subject,” every time boating regulations are put in place they always end up adding new obligations. With the recent revision of the Regulations implementing the Recreational Code, for example, the list of safety equipment has lengthened again. The new entries are: automatic activation light for life jackets, hand sounder, day and night visual signal table, safety harness with umbilical safety line (for sailing units). Plus there is the novelty of “recommended” equipment, which is not clear what it means. Proposals – Halt the continued growth of on-board equipment, rationalizing current ones if appropriate (see “First Aid Kits”); prevent “recommended” ones from becoming mandatory.
Italian boats have as mandatory equipment one of the most impressive (and expensive) first-aid kits in the world. A kind of sailing medical garrison to be the envy of an ambulance. A kit consisting of 23 items with such improbable accessories as 5 “pluss oximeters” (instruments used to measure hemoglobin saturation), to which are added a phonendoscope, a sphygmomanometer and even a resuscitation mask (Ambu), which many doctors say should be used only by specifically trained people. All compulsory from sailing more than 12 miles from the coast. This nautical first aid kit is one of the most striking examples of an oppressive bureaucracy. Proposals – Adapt the first aid kit to the actual needs (and capabilities) of the boater. Look at any kit in use abroad and adjust accordingly.
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