Circular Letter
MSC/Circ.1080

ADOPTION OF AMENDMENTS TO THE INTERNATIONAL AERONAUTICAL AND MARITIME SEARCH AND RESCUE (IAMSAR) MANUAL

(adopted on 5 June 2003)

1. The Maritime Safety Committee (MSC), at its seventy-seventh session (28 May to 6 June 2003), having been informed that the International Civil Aviation Organization had approved amendments to the IAMSAR Manual, as prepared by the Joint ICAO/IMO Working Group on Harmonization of Aeronautical and Maritime Search and Rescue and endorsed by the Sub-Committee on Radiocommunications, Search and Rescue at its seventh session (13 to 17 January 2003), adopted the annexed amendments in accordance with the procedure laid down in resolution A.894(21).

2. MSC 77 decided that the amendments* should enter into force on 1 July 2004.

ANNEX.

AMENDMENTS TO THE IAMSAR MANUAL, VOLUME III

Safety Precautions when approaching or leaving a helicopter

After the end of the paragraph on "SAFETY PREPARATIONS", add a new paragraph on page 131:

Safety Precautions when approaching or leaving a helicopter

Do not approach or depart a helicopter unless directed to do so by the pilot or crewman.