STCW Personal Survival Techniques (Update)

0.5 day - £130

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The Personal Survival Techniques Refresher / Revalidation Training aims to provide delegates with the essential training in order to maintain proficiency as required in the STCW 2010 Manila Amendments. This STCW refresher course runs for half a day and involves time in the classroom and pool facility. It’s supervised by fully qualified instructors, making it suitable for non-swimmers.

We also provide the initial/basic STCW Personal Survival Techniques course for those who don’t already hold an existing certificate

students in a swimming pool training for their sea survival course

  • Classroom session :

    • Main types of maritime emergencies

    • Types of life-saving appliances

    • Survival craft

    • Equipment in survival craft

    • Location of personal life-saving appliances

    • Principles of survival during a maritime emergency

    Practical session:

    • How to don a lifejacket

    • How to safely jump from a height into water

    • How to right an inverted raft whilst wearing a lifejacket

    • How to swim whilst wearing a lifejacket

    • How to board a survival craft from the water whilst wearing a lifejacket

    • What initial actions you need to take when boarding survival craft

    • How to operate survival craft equipment

    • How to correctly don and use an immersion suit

    • How to keep afloat without a lifejacket

  • Minimum age 16

    Proof of completion of the Personal Survival Techniques training or equivalent is required.

    • Tea, Coffee and light refreshments 

    • Use of a lifejacket, wet weather gear and a survival suit

    • Course Handbook

    • Swimming Pool Hire

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