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Stability & Loading Circle 3 on Reader Service Card BMT Aims to Improve Vessel Evac Trials measuring the ship evacuation performance of passengers in condi- tions including smoke and rolling motion are being conducted as part of research project led by British Maritime Technology Ltd. (BMT) and co-funded by the European Union. The goal: produce FIRE-EXIT simulation tool that will equip the marine industry with ship evacuation, fire and aban- donment simulation tool that is sig- nificant improvement over the level of reliability, realism and design utility available from existing systems. The software will enable the design of safer vessels, optimization of ship layout and emergency procedures and will also assist in ensuring that, in the event of fire, passengers move as quickly and safely as possible to their assigned lifeboat stations. For the first time large-scale, smoke-filled test facility capable of dynamic motion superimposed over an angle of heel is being used with volun- teer "passengers" for live trials. This follows major enhancements to the Ship Evacuation Behaviour Assessment (SHEBA) facility that pro- vides uniquely realistic insight into the evacuation process. Full-scale abandonment trials are also being con- ducted in Canada. Volunteers are timed and behaviour videotaped as they escape from muster stations via inflat- able slides and vertical chutes as they cross collection platform and enter life rafts and lifeboats. Model tests have been performed to measure lifeboat launching performance in high sea states. Data collected from these trials is being incorporated within the maritimeEXODUS ship evacuation software and the fire simulation soft- ware SMARTFIRE, both of which are developed by the Fire Safety Engineering Group