Question 415 Deck Safety

The correct answer is B) Take no action because the painter will cause the liferaft to inflate and open the container. The painter line on a liferaft is designed to automatically inflate and open the liferaft container when the line is pulled taut by the sinking of the vessel. This is a standard safety feature to ensure the liferaft is deployed and ready for use as quickly as possible when the ship is sinking. Cutting the painter line (option A) would prevent the automatic deployment, which is the opposite of the desired action. Manually opening the container (option C) is unnecessary since the painter line will handle this automatically. Swimming away from the container (option D) could put the person at risk of being pulled down with the sinking vessel, so this is also not the recommended action.