STCW Personal Survival Techniques

€217.80 EUR(incl. VAT)

Course Type:

STCW ➜ Personal Survival Techniques

Training School:

Palma Sea School

Location:

Palma, Spain

Duration:

1 day

Language:

English

STCW Personal Survival Techniques

What is the Personal Survival Techniques course?

The STCW Personal Survival Techniques course (often referred to as Sea Survival training) covers all the essentials for dealing with a survival situation at sea. It is a core part of the STCW Basic Safety Training course and is one of the 2 modules that require STCW2010 Update training every 5 years.

Course Content

• Types of emergency situations such as collision, fire, sinking
• Types of life-saving appliances normally carried on ships
• Equipment in survival craft
• Location of personal life-saving appliances
• Principles concerning survival

Practical instruction will include

• Donning a life jacket
• Donning and use an immersion suit
• Safely entering the water from a height
• Righting an inverted life raft while wearing a life jacket and immersion suit
• Swimming while wearing a life jacket
• Keeping afloat
• Boarding a life raft from ship and water while wearing a life jacket
• Taking initial actions on boarding a life raft to enhance chance of survival
• Streaming a drogue or sea anchor
• Operating location devices, including radio equipment

Duration: 1 Day

Prerequisites: None

Certificate validity: 5 years

Certification: Personal Survival Techniques STCW A-VI/1

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