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