STCW Survival Craft and Rescue Boat

STUDENT MANUAL

Eligibility - Who can do this course

This course is for people already working in boat operations, have previously completed STCW Basic Training, and have six months sea time. No academic qualifications are needed for admission to vessel operations programs, but functional literacy and numeracy are. Students who intend to advance to Boatmaster licences must check their eligibility for that with the Maritime Services Division, MOWT.

Programme Objectives

This program will provide the fundamentals of maintaining and launching survival craft, managing survival craft, managing and giving basic first aid to survivors, communication from survival craft, starting and weekly maintenance of rescue boat engines.

Learning Outcomes

Successful candidates will be able to take charge of survival craft and survivors in a drill or emergency.

Resources needed for the programme

Students need their brain, their attention span and a device to access YouTube and WhatsApp and pen and paper.

SSNT provides: the Learning material, Personal tutor, Assessments.

What you will learn

Based on STCW Table: VI/2, paragraph 1 and Section A-VI/2, paragraphs 1 to 4 Competency in Survival Craft and Rescue Boats other than fast rescue boats..

Launching Survival Craft

Covers: SOLAS Training Manual, Hydrostatic Release Units, Launching buoyant apparatus, Manually launching inflatable life rafts, Boarding survival craft, Painters. Launching rescue boats (1 hour duration).

Managing Survivors and Survival Craft

Covers: Righting a life raft that has inflated upside down, Boarding survival craft, Headcounts, Stabilising and moving the life raft, Ventilating the life raft, Anti Seasickness tablets, Water rations in the first 24 hours, Recovering survivors from the water, Posting lookouts, Marshalling survival craft together, Repairing leaking or punctured life raft tubes (1 hour duration)

Communicating from Survival Craft

Covers: Communicating before abandoning ship, Transferring communication equipment from the ship to survival craft, GMDSS portable radios, EPIRB, SART, Radar reflector, Low tech communication, Pyrotechnics. (1 hour duration).

First Aid in Survival Craft

Covers: Category C first aid kit contents, Basic first aid for bleeding, Basic first aid for shock, Basic CPR for nonresponsive casualty. (0.5 hour duration).

Operating Rescue Boat Engines

Rescue boat (outboard) engine weekly maintenance, Cold starting rescue boat (outboard) engine, Operating rescue boat (outboard) engine . (1.5 hour duration).

How you will learn

Oral Discussion

The tasks in the practical demonstrations will be practised with the personal tutor. At the same time the personal tutor will have oral discussions with the student about practices and procedures.

Presentations (LMS)

As listed in “What you will learn”.

Assessment Strategy

Portfolio of Evidence