RYA Sea Survival

This RYA course is for offshore race crews, cruising yachts, professional seafarers and commercial operators. It covers essential sea survival skills: if the worst ever happened at sea and you had to abandon your boat, would you know what to do?

Our RYA Sea Survival training course assumes the worst case scenario: that you have to abandon your yacht or ship. The Sea Survival course equips students with a grounding in core safety and survival techniques with some practical, hands-on demonstrations. Sea Survival Training is aimed at leisure yachtsmen and powerboaters as well as paid crew on vessels up to 3000GT. The RYA / MCA Sea Survival course is very popular among leisure and professional sailors and powerboaters and can be used as day 1 of the ISAF Offshore Safety Crew Course, which is required by offshore race crews competing in events such as the RORC Fastnet, AZAB, ARC, RBI and Sydney Hobart race.

Course Structure

Every yachtsman (power or sail) should attend this one day course. The emphasis of the RYA Sea Survival course is on using life-rafts and the day includes a two hour practical session in the pool, learning how to inflate, climb into, upright and survive in a life-raft. The course also covers a wide range of other survival issues, including helicopter rescue, immersion in cold water, and life jackets, as well as an outdoor practical demonstration by the instructor off a real distress flare.

We hope you never need to use the skills gained on this course, but strongly believe that if the worst ever happened and yours and your crew's lives depended on it, this training will prove invaluable and will help to preserve life.

The RYA Sea Survival course is one of the requirements for anyone who would like to commercially endorse their MCA / RYA Yachtmaster or MCA / RYA Advanced Powerboat Certificate of Competence. The Sea Survival Course also makes up half of the ISAF Offshore Race Crew Course.

Useful Information

The RYA Sea Survival course is suitable for beginners and as such there are no pre-requisites, although a familiarity with boats is advantageous.

What's Included:

Day of shorebased training, pool and life raft use

Live flare session

Loan of life jacket for the pool

RYA Sea Survival Handbook

RYA Sea Survival Certificate

Free Parking ( subject to terms & conditions )

What's Not Included:

Lunch (available to buy locally)