STCW Personal Survival Techniques

£210 GBP (incl. VAT)

Course Type:

Personal Survival Techniques

Training School:

Petans Ltd

Location:

Norwich, United Kingdom

Duration:

1 day

Language:

English

Course brief

This course is a pre-requisite for entry to the Merchant Navy and conforms to the Merchant Navy Training Board (MNTB) standard. The course also forms part of the 5 day STCW Combined course. Considerable emphasis is places on practical elements and all students are required to engage in all the structural activities to qualify for a certificate.

Course content

Delegates successfully completing the course will have gained knowledge of:

• Types of emergency which may occur at sea
• Actions to be taken when called to survival craft stations, emergency and pre-abandonment preparation
• Lifeboats
• Marine Evacuation Systems
• Operations of location devices including the operation of distress rockets and flares
• Actions in the event of man-overboard
• Life-raft structure, launching methods, operation, contents and care of the vessel
• Boarding the life-raft and righting in the event of a capsize
• Use of life jackets, including method of correct water entry from a height
• Individual and group survival techniques in the water, hypothermia and frostbite

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