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
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