Personal Survival Techniques (A-VI /1-1)

This MCA regulated personal survival techniques course conforms with MNTB guidelines and provides all seafarers, the education and training in personal survival techniques to meet the knowledge, understanding and proficiency (KUP) requirements as set out in the STCW Table A-VI/1-1. Covering competence required to survive at sea in event of ship abandonment.

It is one of five courses that together make up the STCW Basic Safety Training Course - an essential qualification for anyone wishing to work on commercial ships.

The Personal Survival Techniques course will be delivered from a purpose-built classroom to support STCW instruction and use a professional swimming pool complex for the practical exercises.

Delegates should be well and fit enough to undertake a number of survival exercises that will include swimming and accessing a life raft in a swimming pool.

Course Structure

This course includes:

Instruction on basic principles and procedures

“Dry” demonstrations of raft and equipment

Practical wet drill

It covers the use of survival craft and associated equipment, together with the actions which should be taken by each person to overcome or minimise the immediate threats to life at each stage of a survival situation, i.e. prior to abandonment, at abandonment, and aboard survival craft.

By the end of the course delegates will:

Know the main types of maritime emergencies

Know the survival equipment used during a maritime emergency

Understand the principles of survival during a maritime emergency

Know how to abandon ship during a maritime emergency

Know how to be able to survive in the water during a maritime emergency

Know how to use a survival craft during a maritime emergency

Useful Information

Duration - 1 Day