Abstract: A system and method for accessing a lifeboat including identifying and accounting for individuals needing access to a lifeboat having one or more CPUs, one or more databases, a plurality mobile PDA, dependent on receiving an initiating signal, and thereafter receiving from receiver a lockout condition, that utilizes a register for decrementing the available space in a lifeboat dependent on a received lockout condition, at least on of the CPUs having a program for accounting for passengers, who require access to a available space on a lifeboat, mustering and re-routing the passengers to muster stations based an algorithm that calculates available space, and assigning passengers to a lifeboat, dependent on an algorithm that assigns passengers to available space on a lifeboat, so passengers will be safely and expediently assigned to fillable space on a serviceable lifeboat.