{"id":51273,"date":"2026-04-13T21:09:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?p=51273"},"modified":"2026-04-13T21:09:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:09:41","slug":"m-o-b-man-overboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/m-o-b-man-overboard\/","title":{"rendered":"M.O.B &#8211; Man OverBoard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\">MOB process \u2013 Captain<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Pass buoyancy to the casualty and mark with a dan buoy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Instruct a crewmember to point at MOB.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>start the engine.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Make ready the throwing line.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Manoeuvre the boat downwind of the MOB, keeping the MOB in sight.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Approach the MOB into the wind, so that the mainsail is de-powered.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pick up the MOB.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">MOB process \u2013 Crew<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Shout \u2018man overboard\u2019 to alert crew.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Press the MOB button on the GPS.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Throw a life buoy and dan buoy to the MOB. Mark the MOB with a buoyant smoke flare.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Allocate a crewmember to point at the MOB in the water.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Send a DSC distress alert and a Mayday.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Keep pointing; don\u2019t lose sight of the MOB.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If the motor has been started,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prepare a throwing line.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The skipper will bring the boat alongside the MOB, with the boat pointing into the wind and the propeller stopped.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Get a line around the MOB and get them aboard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOB process \u2013 Captain MOB process \u2013 Crew<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","c2c-post-author-ip":"2a02:c7c:2ef8:2400:9c37:e55a:9068:12fb","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51274,"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51273\/revisions\/51274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}