You have put your vessel aground, what are you going to do?

(1) Stop your vessel.

(2) Sound the general alarm of 7 short blasts and one prolonged blast to alert the crew.

(3) Get everyone to their muster stations.

(4) At the same time the skipper should be putting out a Mayday. The reason for this is you don't know how much damage you have to your vessel.

(5) Get the liferaft's ready to launch, don't launch them until the last possible moment, your vessel is your best liferaft just now.

(6) Get the mate and engineer to check each compartment for ingress of water.

(7) They make a report to the skipper once they have finished to alert the Coastguard to the state of your vessel.

(8) If a leak is found, I have no faith in shoring up a vessel until I know for sure that there is no danger to life, your insurance will pay for loosing your vessel, don't take chances!!!! your crew comes before the vessel.

(9) Get a collision mat ready incase you get a chance to use it.

(10) Get a rope ready incase there is a vessel coming to your assistance for towing you off.

(11) Make sure all crew have survival suits on if they have them and life jackets.

(12) NEVER take chances with you crews lives, if in doubt about your vessel and you think she is going to capsize launch the liferaft's now and get all the crew into it.