Survival Craft and Rescue Boat

Take charge of a survival craft or rescue boat during and after launch

• Construction and outfitting of survival craft and rescue boats and individual items of their equipment

• Characteristics and facilities of survival craft and rescue boats

• Types of device used for launching of survival craft and rescue boats

• Launching survival craft and rescue boats into a rough sea

• Dangers associated with upon use of on-load release devices

• Actions to be taken upon leaving the ship

• Recovering during rough sea conditions of survival craft and rescue boats

• Maintenance procedures of survival craft and rescue boats

Operate a survival craft engine

• Methods of starting and operating a survival craft engine

Manage survivors and survival craft after abandoning ship as well as apply first aid to survivors

• Food and water apportionment

• First aid kit and resuscitation techniques

• Effects of hypothermia and its prevention

• Management of injured persons

• Handling survival craft in rough weather

• Use of painter, sea-anchor and all other equipment

• Detectability and location of survival craft

• Method in helicopter rescue

• Rescue boats and motor lifeboats for marshaling life rafts and rescue of survivors and persons in the sea

• Beaching survival craft

Use locating devices, including communication and signaling apparatus and pyrotechnics

• Radio life-saving appliances carried in  survival craft

• Pyrotechnic distress signals