COURSE AIM / OBJECTIVE:  

• The purpose of this course is to provide the essential knowledge and experience of personal survival principles to maximize the chances of survival in the event of an emergency. Students learn about different types of emergencies at sea, principles of survival, life-saving appliances etc.
• Seafarers who hold an existing Personal Survival Techniques (PST) certificate are required to complete this updating training course to maintain proficiency under the STCW code, as amended (STCW Section A-VI/1 and table A-VI/1-1).

• Introduction
• Lifeboats, Life rafts
• Safety and Survival
• Personal Life Saving Appliances
• Safety guidance
• Lifebuoys, Life jackets
• Principles of survival at sea
• Inflatable life jackets
• Definitions, survival craft and appliances
• Immersion suits/anti-exposure suit (AES)
• SOLAS training manual
• Thermal protective aids
• Safety symbols
• Personal Life Saving Appliances (Demonstrations)

• Lifebuoys, Lifejackets, Inflatable lifejackets
• Types of emergencies, Precautions,
• Immersion suits
• Fire prevention, Foundering
• Thermal protective aids
• Crew expertise, Muster list and emergency signals
• Personal survival without lifejacket
• Extra equipment and survival
• Boarding survival craft
• Abandoning ship complications
• Survival at sea, Dangers to survivors
• Evacuation
• Best use of survival craft facilities
• Abandoning ship-last resort
• Emergency Radio Equipment
• Personal preparation for abandoning ship
• Emergency Situations

• Need to prevent panic
• Emergency position-indicating radio beacons
• Crew duties to passengers
• Search and rescue transponders
• Crew duties-launching survival craft
• Helicopter assistance
• Master's orders to abandon ship
• Communicating with the helicopter
• Means of survival
• Evacuation from ship and survival craft
• Survival craft and Rescue Boats
• Helicopter pick-up, Correct use of helicopter harness
• Portable radio apparatus for survival craft