---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 169.515"
title: "46"
number: "169.515"
heading: "Number required."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/169.515"
---

# §169.515. Number required.

- (a) Except as provided in [paragraph (c)](#c) of this section, each vessel must have sufficient lifeboats or inflatable liferafts to accommodate all persons on board .
- (b) Each vessel certificated for exposed waters must have additional inflatable liferafts to accommodate 25% of the persons on board or the number of persons accommodated in the largest lifeboat or liferaft, whichever is greater.
- (c) Vessels certificated for protected waters only may carry lifefloats of a combined capacity to accommodate all persons on board in lieu of the lifeboats and inflatable liferafts required in [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1321(j); 46 U.S.C. 3306, 6101; Pub. L. 103-206, 107 Stat. 2439; E.O. 11735, 38 FR 21243, 3 CFR, 1971-1975 Comp., p. 793; DHS Delegation 00170.1, Revision No. 01.4; § 169.117 also issued under the authority of 44 U.S.C. 3507.

### Source

Source: CGD 83-005, 51 FR 896, Jan. 9, 1986, unless otherwise noted.