STCW A-VI/1-1 Sea Survival Training

This is for all who are employed or engaged on a sea-going ship, other than a passenger vessel, since this is requisite before being assigned to shipboard duties that seafarers receive approved familiarization training and instructions in accordance with paragraph 1 of section A-VI/1 of the STCW Code (Standards of Training, Certification & Watchkeeping). The course is a combination of on-site classroom instruction and outside training in Esbjerg harbour. On satisfactory completion an appropriate certificate will be issued. The course is endorsed by the International Maritime Organisation.

Content

• Types of emergency situations which may occur, such as collision, fire, foundering
• Types of life-saving appliances normally carried on ships
• Equipment in survival craft
• Location and the use of personal life-saving appliances
• Principles concerning survival
• The use of a life jacket and survival suit
• Safely jump from a height into the water
• Right inverted life raft while wearing a life jacket
• Swim while wearing a life jacket
• Keep afloat without a life jacket
• Board a survival craft from ship and water while wearing a life jacket
• Take initial actions on boarding survival craft to enhance chance of survival
• Operate survival craft equipment
• Operate location devices

Objectives

In one action packed day we aim to give the participant the basic knowledge about survival at sea in the event of a ship abandonment.