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Western Training Association

Personal Survival Techniques (A-VI /1-1)

Lancashire, UK

102 GBP (£)

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School Western Training Association

Location Lancashire, UK

Duration 1 day(s)

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Accommodation None Included

The Personal Survival Techniques course forms part of the mandatory basic safety training for all seafarers.

The purpose of this STCW sea survival training is to provide the essential knowledge and experience of personal survival principles to maximise the chances of survival in the event of an emergency, including practical training in the use of life jackets and inflatable life rafts.

Course Structure

The course will include;

•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 at sea.

The practical instruction will include;

•Donning a life jacket

•Donning and use of an immersion suit

•Safely jumping from a height into the water

•Righting an inverted life raft while wearing a life jacket

•Swimming while wearing a life jacket and keeping afloat

•Boarding a liferaft from the ship or the water while wearing a life jacket

•Taking initial actions on boarding a liferaft to enhance chance of survival

•Streaming a drogue or sea anchor

•Bringing aboard an injured person

•A Group survival exercise.

About Western Training Association

Leisure Lakes, Mere Brow, Tarleton, Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom, [ view on map ]

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