This course provides training to mariners seeking to
meet USCG or IMO requirements for a Personal Survival
Techniques (PS) course. Any student who successfully
completes the PS course will satisfy the Personal
Survival Techniques training requirements of Section
A-VI/1 and Table A-VI/1-1 of the Seafarers’ Training,
Certification and Watchkeeping (STCW) Code and 46 CFR
10.205(1)(1).
This course will also be of value to others operating
vessels on the water who may not be seeking U.S. Coast
Guard documents, licenses or endorsements, or whose
experience is not up to the minimum requirements
established under ideal conditions
A trainee successfully completing this course will be
able to react in the correct manner during emergency
situations, take measures appropriate to his/her own
survival and to the survival of others, and use survival
equipment correctly. The trainee will also acquire
knowledge that in some instances will enable him/her to
identify and correct defects and thereby prevent
emergencies. The course consists of both classroom and
in-water training.
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The following topics are covered in the course:
- Safety and principles of survival at sea
- Emergency situations at sea
- Evacuation
- Survival craft
- Personal life-saving appliances including
demonstration of use
- Survival at sea
- Emergency radio equipment
- In-water survival assessment
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