2.6 The ballast water management plan should include a list of circumstances in which ballast water exchange should not be undertaken. These circumstances may result from critical situations of an exceptional nature, force majeure due to stress of weather, or any other circumstances in which human life or safety of the ship is threaened.
3 Crew training and familiarization
3.1 The ballast water management plan should include the nomination of key shipboard control personnel undertaking ballast water exchange at sea
3.2 Ships' officers and ratings engaged in ballast water exchange at sea should be trained in and familiarized with the following:
.1 the ship's pumping plan, which should show ballast pumping arrangements, with positions of associated air and sounding pipes, positions of all compartment and tank suctions and pipelines connecting them to ship's ballast pumps and, in the case of use of the flow through method of ballast water exchange, the openings used for release of water from the top of the tank together with overboard discharge arrangements;
.2 the method of ensuring that sounding pipes are clear, and that air pipes and their non-return devices are in good order;
.3 the different times required to undertake the various ballast water exchange operations;
.4 the methods in use for ballast water exchange at sea if applicable with particular reference to required safety precautions; and
.5 the method of on-board ballast water record keeping, reporting and recording of routine soundings.
