Personal Survival Techniques Course STCW
Personal Survival Techniques. The PST Course equips people who go to sea professionally with essential basic knowledge and experience that can be applied to maximise their chances of survival in the event of an emergency.
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Price: € 255.00
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Course Description
The Personal Survival Techniques Course intends to equip people who go to sea professionally with essential basic knowledge and experience that can be applied to maximise their chances of survival in the event of an emergency.
- Course Type: Theory, some practical
- Required Experience: None
- Assumed Knowledge: None
- Course Content:
Introduction Safety & Survival
- Safety Guidance
- Principles of Survival at sea
- Definitions, survival craft and appliances
- SOLAS Training manual
- Safety Symbols
Emergency situations
- Types of emergencies
- Precautions
- Fire Provisions
- Foundering
- Crew expertise and initial familiarisation
- Muster List and emergency signals
- Crew and emergency instructions
- Extra equipment and survival
- Abandon ship – complications
Evacuation
- Abandoning ship last resort
- Personal preparation for abandoning ship
- Need to prevent panic
- Crew duties to passengers
- Crew duties launching survival craft
- Masters orders to abandon ship
- Means of Survival
Survival Craft and Rescue boats
- Lifeboats
- Life-rafts
- Rescue boats
Personal Life-saving appliances
- Lifebuoys
- Life-jackets
- Immersion suits/anti-exposure suit
- Thermal Protective aids
Personal Life-saving appliances (Demonstrations)
- Lifebuoys
- Life-jackets
- Inflatable life-jackets
- Immersion suits or anti-exposure suit
- Thermal protective aids
- Personal survival without a life-jacket
- Boarding survival craft
Survival at sea
- Dangers to survivors
- Best use of survival craft facilities
Emergency radio equipment (Lecture and Demonstrations)
- Portable radio apparatus for survival craft
- Emergency position-indicating radio beacons (EPIRBs)
- Search and Rescue transponders (SARTs)
Helicopter assistance
- Communicating with the helicopter
- Evacuation from ship and survival craft
- Helicopter pick-up
- Correct use of helicopter harness
Ability After Course: The Personal Survival Techniques Certificate covers the requirements of the 1995 STCW Convention and Code Chapter VI, Section A – VI/1. On Completion of this course, a trainee will be able to survive at sea in the event of ship abandonment.
Duration: 1 Day
Price: €255.00 (Training package price starting from €120)
Dates: 24 September, 22 October, 18 November, 17 December 2013.