Personal Survival Techniques

£200 GBP

Course Type:

Personal Survival Techniques

Training School:

South Shields Marine School

Location:

South Shields, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom

Duration:

1 day

Language:

English

Course Title: Personal Survival Techniques
Course Code: 508

This course provides seafarers with the essential education and training in personal survival techniques meeting the requirements set out in STCW Code Table A-VI/1-1. The student will have a good understanding of how to survive at sea in the event of ship abandonment.

Assesment

Students are continuously assessed during the course in the pool. They must demonstrate the following:

• Donning of an emersion suit and life jacket.
• Stepping into the water.
• Swimming whilst wearing a life jacket.
• Enter a life raft and subsequent immediate and secondary actions whilst in the life raft.
• Righting an upside down life raft.
• Simulated winching from a life raft.

There is also a multi choice written exam.

This course is a requirement for all person proceeding to sea in the merchant navy.

Entry Requirements

The learner must be at least 16 years of age to be issued with a Certificate of Proficiency. In exceptional circumstances where a learner is physically able and fit they may be able to complete the training course prior to her/his 16th birthday.

Book Now