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The Conference,

 HAVING ADOPTED amendments to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), 1974, concerning the safety of ro-ro passenger ships,

 CONSIDERING new SOLAS regulation V/10(a) which requires that, if the ship receiving the distress alert is unable or, in the special circumstances of the case, considers it unreasonable or unnecessary to proceed to the assistance of persons in distress, the master thereof must, taking into account the recommendations of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), inform the appropriate search and rescue service accordingly,

 NOTING that the recommendations referred to above have to be developed by IMO for use by all seafarers,

 BEING OF THE OPINION that the said recommendations should be adopted as amendments to the Merchant Ship Search and Rescue (MERSAR) Manual prior to entry into force of the relevant 1995 SOLAS amendments,

  1. REQUESTS the Maritime Safety Committee of IMO to prepare and adopt as a matter of urgency amendments to the MERSAR Manual recommending the procedure to be followed by ships receiving a distress alert and failing to proceed to the assistance of persons in distress when it is unreasonable to expect them to do so;

  2. INVITES Contracting Governments to take steps to ensure that such amendments to the MERSAR Manual are adopted with the minimum delay.

Parent topic: Resolution 8 - Distress messages: obligations and procedures – (Adopted on 29 November 1995)
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