Value of training and drills

• Explain the importance of training and drills
• Personnel must familiarize themselves as soon as possible after joining a ship with: – Meaning of emergency signals – Instructions on the muster list and their duties – Location and use of life-saving equipment – Escape routes and equipment – Means provided for survival on ship and survival craft

Personal protective clothing and equipment

• Don a lifejacket
• Don an immersion suit / anti-exposure suit
• Don a thermal protective aid

Survival Steps If You Cannot Get Out of the Water

Need to be ready for any emergency

• State the need to be prepared to use personal survival techniques at any time
• Recognize the duty allocated in the muster list

Actions to be taken when called to survival craft stations

• List and carry out the actions when called to survival craft stations

Actions to be taken when required to abandon ship

• List actions to be taken when required to abandon ship
• Board survival craft from the ship
• Safely jump from a height into the water (wearing lifejacket or immersion suit)

Launching and boarding a life raft

Actions to be taken when in the water

• List actions to be taken when in the water
• Swim while wearing a lifejacket
• Swim while wearing an immersion suit
• Keep afloat without a lifejacket
• Right an inverted liferaft while wearing a lifejacket
• Right an inverted liferaft while wearing an immersion suit
• Board survival craft from the water while wearing a lifejacket
• Board survival craft from the water while wearing an immersion suit

ISPLR – Inflatable Military Life Raft

Actions to be taken when aboard a survival craft

• List actions to be taken when aboard a survival craft
• Take initial actions on boarding survival craft to enhance chance of survival
• Stream a drogue or sea-anchor
• Operate survival craft equipment
• Operate location devices including the radio equipment (EPIRB, SART, 2-way VHF)

WHEN THE WIND GETS SCARY – Small Craft Advisor

Main dangers to survivors (Very important for exams) Describe main dangers and relevant precautions for:

• Heat stroke, sun stroke, exposure to cold, frostbite/frostnip, cold shock and hypothermia
• Effects of seasickness
• Secondary drowning
• Failure to maintain body fluids correctly, causing dehydration
• Drinking seawater
• Fire or oil on water
• Dangerous marine organisms