The course provides all the personnel operating on ships and offshore installations with sea survival training in accordance with IMO STCW’95.
Theoretical aspects
- Emergency situations that can occur: collision, fire, sinking
- Lifesaving appliances on ships
- The necessity of survival principles
- The value of training and practice
- The necessity to be ready for every emergency and to be aware of:
- Information on Emergency roles:
- Assembly points
- Signals expressing the necessity to reach life boats and the firefighting stations
- life jackets position
- fire alarm control systems position
- Escape means
- Actions to be undertaken in assembly points
- Wearing an appropriate clothing
- Wearing a life jacket
- Collecting supplementary protections, such as blankets (if the weather allows it)
- Actions to be undertaken if the ship must be abandoned
- How to get on a life boat from the shift or from the water
- How to throw oneself into the sea from a certain height and how to reduce risks of injuries when impacting with water
- Actions to be undertaken in water
- How to survive in case of
- Fire or petroleum in water
- Cold conditions
- Shark-infested waters
- How to straighten an overturned life boat
- Actions to be undertaken on a life boat
- Moving away from the ship
- Protection against cold and extreme heat
- Use of floating anchor or cape anchor
- Lookout service
- Rescue and treatment of survivors
- Checks to verify that the equipment is ready for use
- Staying in proximity
The greatest dangers for survivors and general principles of survival
- Sun, wind, rain and sea exposure
- The importance of suitable clothing
- Protection measures and lifesaving appliances
- hypothermia
- the importance of preserving liquid within the body
- protection against seasickness
- right use of drinkable water and food
- effects of sea water drinking
- ways to facilitate the recovery of missing people
- to keep the moral up
Practical session
- Throwing a self-inflatable raft in the swimming pool and open it
- Life jacket correct wearing
- Entry in water from a 3-meter height, with a life jacket on
- Swimming with life jacket and waves (created by a generator)
- Staying afloat without life jacket
- Getting on a life raft from the ship or form water (with life jacket) in different conditions
- Favourable weather conditions (individual and collective exercise)
- Rain, waves (individual and collective exercise)
- Help the others get on the life boats/rafts
- Using the life boats/rafts equipment (portable radio device)
- Use floating or cape anchors
- How to live on a life raft (collective exercise)
- How to get off the life raft (individual exercise)
- How to throw a raft in water and how to inflate it, incidents (collective exercise)
- How to turn an overturned life raft, wearing a life jacket, in favourable conditions, without people on board (individual exercise)
- How to turn an overturned life raft with a person on board and unfavourable conditions (rain- collective exercise)
- How to be rescued by a helicopter
- How to leave a flooded space with life jackets on (collective exercise)
- How to make a life jacket by using a coveralls
- How to use signalling equipment
- To take care of injured people during and after the ship abandon
- First aid techniques and resuscitation
Practical training in a 10.000 sqm artificial pond
- Inscription to the register “gente di mare” (seafarers)
- PSSR certificate (personal safety and social responsibilities)
- Passport and medical certificate
Course available on request
Certificate recognized by general command of the Coast Guard
(only after passing both theoretical and practical tests)
