Theoretical Training

• Fire theory and fire prevention (types and origins, fire risks, firefighting equipment)
• Fire propagation
• Detection systems
• Fixed firefighting installations
• Firefighting appliances and their location on board
• Personal Safety Procedures
• Organisation of shipboard firefighting
• Fire Fighting techniques (use of breathing apparatus, fire extinguishers, fixed firefighting devices, foam, etc.)
• Management of methods and operational acts during emergencies

Practical Training

• Use of various types of extinguishers and use of self-contained breathing apparatus
• Extinguish small fires (electrical, oil and propane fires)
• Extinguish extensive fires
• Rescue in a smoke-filled space wearing breathing apparatus
• Pass through a compartment into which high-expansion foam has been injected
• Fire fighting in smoke-filled enclosed spaces wearing self-contained breathing apparatus