Updated Proficiency in Personal Survival Techniques

Prerequisites:

Seafarers who have six months or more sea service prior to 1 August 1998 and were exempt from basic safety courses;

Seafarers who have a certificate of proficiency in personal survival techniques and who have maintained the required standard of competence by onboard training and experience for all competences listed in the self declaration form. NB – certificates of proficiency issued under the authority of other administrations will be acceptable.

Certificate validity: 5 years as per the STCW 2010 Manilla Amanedments

Certification: Certificate of Updated Proficiency in Personal Survival Techniques

Duration: 1 Day (0900hrs – 1700hrs)

Cost: £168.00inc vat (Please note all prices include vat @20%)

Location: South West Maritime Academy, Cromhall Quarry, Cromhall, South Gloucestershire, GL12 8AA

Who is required to complete the STCW2010 Updated Proficiency in Personal Survival Techniques?

Section A-VI/1 of STCW (paragraph 3) states that ‘Seafarers qualified in accordance with paragraph 2 in basic training shall be required, every five years, to provide evidence of having maintained the required standard of competence, to undertake the tasks, duties and responsibilities listed in column 1 of table A VI/1-1.’

Personal Survival Techniques

The STCW Personal Survival Techniques course (often referred to as Sea Survival training) covers all the essentials for dealing with a survival situation at sea. It is a core part of the STCW Basic Safety Training course and is one of the 2 modules that require STCW2010 Update training every 5 years.

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