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PROFICIENCY IN PERSONAL
SURVIVAL TECHNIQUE
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This model course aims to meet the
mandatory minimum requirements for
seafarers for familiarization, basic safety
training, and instruction in accordance with
Section A-VI/1 of STCW Code.
This
course covers the training recommended
in resolution 19 on training of seafarers in
personal survival techniques adopted by
the International Conference on Training
and Certificate of Seafarers, 1978.
OBJECTIVE
A trainee successfully completing this course will be able to react in a correct
manner during emergency situations, take measures appropriate to his own
survival and to the survival of others, and use survival equipment correctly.
He will also acquire knowledge in some instances which will enable him to
identify and correct defects and thereby prevent emergencies. This syllabus
covers the requirements of the 1995 STCW Convention and Code Chapter
VI, Section A-VI/1. On meeting the minimum standard of competence in
personal survival techniques, a trainee will be able to survive at sea in the
event of the ship abandonment.
Duration: 8 Days
Training Venue: Redo II Building (Theoretical)
Naic Training Complex
(Practicum)
Schedule: Starts Every Monday,
Wednesday and Friday
AM & PM classes
Approximate time
(hour)
General Principles
1.0
2.0
Management of Shock
1.0
Bleeding
1.5
1.0
Resuscitation
2.0
Positioning of Casualty
1.5
1.0
1.5
10
Other topics
2.5
TOTAL
15.0
SUBJECT AREA
LECTURE
HOURS
3.0
2.0
SUBJECT AREA
LECTURE
HOURS
2.0
4. Contribute to effective human relationships on board ship
3.0
5. Understand orders and be understood in relation to ship board duties
5.1 Fundamentals of communications
5.2 Methods of communications
5.3 Barriers in communication
5.4 Effective transmission skills
5.5 Effective listening skills
5.6 Effects and consequences of wrong communication
5.7 Communication sum-up
2.0
6
TOTAL
14.0
LECTURE
DEMO
HOURS
I.
1.0
1.0
2.5
a. whistle/sound
b. radio transmitting devices
- portake radio / VHF
- emergency position indicating radio
beacon (EPIRB)
- Search and rescue transponders
(SART)
Line throwing appliances
0.5
SUBJECT AREA
LECTURE
DEMO
HOURS
IV. Survival Crafts
- Definition
- Kinds
a. Liferaft
- definition
- types
- requirements
- launching procedure
- uprighting procedure
b. Lifeboat
- definition
- requirements
- types
- launching devices/appliances
- launching procedure
c. rescue boat
- definition
- requirements
2.0
V. Evacuation
- abandonship
- phases
- what to wear
- what to take
- actions on hearing the alarm
- the ways of abandoning the ship
- entry into the water
- action when in the water
- boarding a survival craft
- action to take after boarding survival craft
1.0
2.0
0.5
SUBJECT AREA
LECTURE
DEMO
HOURS
VII. Helicopter Assistance
- Helicopter rescue
- Preparations/Arrival
- Methods of rescue
a. single lift
b. double lift
c. rescue lift
d. stretcher lift
1.0
VIII. Assessment
IX. Practical Drills
TOTAL
GRAND TOTAL
0.5
4.0
5.0
11.0
16 hrs.