Theoretical Training

• Types of emergencies
• Safety guidance
• Types of life-saving appliances normally carried on ships
• Types of survival craft
• Critical situations
• Evacuation techniques
• Abandoning ship
• Personal protective clothing and equipment
• Survival at sea and main dangers to survivors
• Helicopter assistance and rescue by helicopter
• Emergency radio equipment

Practical Training

• Boarding a liferaft from the ship and from the water while wearing a lifejacket
• Reverse an inverted liferaft while wearing a lifejacket
• Use of location aids
• Demonstration and use of personal life-saving appliances
• Jump into the water from a height while wearing lifejacket and swim a short distance
• Jump into the water and swim while wearing immersion suits
• Use of emergency radio equipment