33 C.F.R. § 149.692 Where must they be located?
Title 33 - Navigation and Navigable Waters
(a) Each means of escape must be easily accessible to personnel for rapidly evacuating the deepwater port. (b) When two or more means of escape are installed, at least two must be located as nearly diagonally opposite each other as practicable. (c) The following spaces, with a floor area of 300 square feet or more, must have at least two exits as widely spaced as possible: (1) Each accommodation space; and (2) Each space that is used on a regular basis, such as a control room, machinery room, storeroom, or other space where personnel could be trapped in an emergency. (d) Structural appendages to the deepwater port that do not have living quarters, workshops, offices, or other manned spaces and that personnel do not occupy continuously (i.e., pumping platform complex) must have at least one primary means of escape and, as determined necessary by the OCMI, one or more secondary means of escape. (e) When personnel are on an unmanned deepwater port, the port must have, in addition to the one primary means of escape, either: (1) Another primary means of escape; or (2) One or more secondary means of escape for every 10 persons onboard at any one time—located in the work areas. (f) Structural appendages to an unmanned deepwater port do not require a primary or a secondary means of escape, unless the OCMI determines that one or more are necessary. (g) Each means of escape must extend from the deepwater port's uppermost working level, to each successively lower working level, and so on to the water surface.
Title 33: Navigation and Navigable Waters
PART 149—DEEPWATER PORTS: DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, AND EQUIPMENT
Subpart F—Design and Equipment
Means of Escape
§ 149.692 Where must they be located?
