---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 C.F.R. § 180.202"
title: "46"
number: "180.202"
heading: "Survival craft—vessels operating on oceans routes."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/46/180.202"
---

# §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 [§ 179.310](/cfr/46/179.310.md) in this chapter or [§ 171.085](/cfr/46/171.085.md) in subchapter S of this chapter, and the standards for subdivision in §§ [179.220](/cfr/46/179.220.md) and [179.320](/cfr/46/179.320.md) of this chapter, or the standards for subdivision and damaged stability in §§ [171.070 through 171.073](/cfr/46/171.070..171.073.md) and [171.080](/cfr/46/171.080.md) 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 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.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 46 U.S.C. 2104, 3306; E.O. 12234, 45 FR 58801, 3 CFR, 1980 Comp., p. 277; DHS Delegation 00170.1, Revision No. 01.4.

### Source

Source: CGD 85-080, 61 FR 975, Jan. 10, 1996, unless otherwise noted.