Proficiency in Survival Craft and Rescue Boats other than fast rescue boats

Maritime course

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Objectives

This course aims to enhance the knowledge and competences to take charge of a survival craft or rescue boat during and after launching and to manage survivors and survival craft after abandoning ship. The course is available in twin fall or freefall type lifeboats.

Course features

4 days
Congo
STCW Code A-VI/2-1 | IMO model course 1.23

Contents

Theoretical Training

  • Emergency situations
  • Actions to be taken when called to survival craft stations and when required to abandon ship
  • Survival equipment
  • Methods of helicopter rescue
  • Survival crafts and rescue boats
  • Lauching arrangements
  • Life boat engine and accessories
  • Evacuation and recovery of survival craft and rescue boats
  • Pyrotechnics and signalling apparatus
  • Actions to be taken when aboard a survival craft
  • Handling survival craft and rescue boats in rough weather
  • First aid
  • Radio equipment

Practical Training

  • Launching survival craft, clear the ship’s site quickly and recovery of survival craft
  • Start and operate an inboard engine fitted in lifeboat
  • Row and steer a boat
  • Use individual items of equipment of survival craft
  • Boarding a liferaft from the ship and from the water while wearing a life jacket
  • Reverse an inverted liferaft while wearing a life jacket
  • Use of location aids and emergency radio equipment
  • Demonstration and use of personal life-saving appliances
  • Jump into the water from a height while wearing life jacket and swim a short distance
  • Jump into the water and swim while wearing immersion suit
Admission requirements
  • Medical fitness certificate

Endorsement by the competent authorities might be subject to additional requirements. For more information, please Contact us

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