STCW Personal Survival Techniques – Sea Survival

Event Details

To give all persons going to sea the essential basic knowledge of survival equipment, survival principles and techniques that can be applied in the event of a marine casualty.

Course Content

• Types of emergency situations such as collision, fire, sinking
• Types of life-saving appliances normally carried on ships
• Equipment in survival craft
• Location of personal life-saving appliances
• Principles concerning survival

Practical instruction will include

• Donning a life jacket
• Donning and use an immersion suit
• Safely entering the water from a height
• Righting an inverted life raft while wearing a life jacket and immersion suit
• Swimming while wearing a life jacket
• Keeping afloat
• Boarding a life raft from ship and water while wearing a life jacket
• Taking initial actions on boarding a life raft to enhance chance of survival
• Streaming a drogue or sea anchor
• Operating location devices, including radio equipment