The maximum number of persons and weight the boat should carry
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It indicates the number of and combined weight of all gear the is safely allotted for a particular boat.
A federal law requires a capacity plat on all motorized, single-hull boats that are less than 20 feet long. The plate must be in seen from the steering area.
No, even at capacity, there were only enough life boats for about half of passengers on board. More would have been saved if the boats were filled at capacity, but not all.
It depends on the boat
because the crewmen were rushing to get people on the boats they didnt know how much time they had to save people. also the crewmen that were loading the boats didnt believe the capacity of 65 was right they thought the boats would sink, therefore plunging the people in the boats into the icy water, but they could have been filled to the full capacity.
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