An eight hour course to prepare students to avoid in-the-water incidents while educating them to minimize injuries and help survive in the event of a water evacuation. Our competent instructors provide lecture and actual water training exercises. API RP T-7, T-4, 75 SEMP and USCG Title 33 regulations recommend all offshore personnel receive annual training in water survival.
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COURSE CONTENT :
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Introduction to Water Survival |
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Review of API RP T-7: Training of Personnel in the Rescue of Persons in Water |
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Review of USCG Title 33 Part 143: Manned & Unmanned Platforms (USCG Inspection Review) |
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Emergency Situations (Types, Signals, Station Bill) |
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Survival Principles (Training & Drills, Attitudes, Platform Abandonment & Clothing as Bouyant Devices) |
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Personal Floatation Devices (Types I-V) |
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Life Ring Buoys, Life Floats, Life Rafts (Applications & Launching) |
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Survival Capsules |
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Signaling Equipment & Pyrotechnics |
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Helicopter Safety |
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Swing Ropes & Personnel Basket Risks & Precautions |
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Survivor Emergency First Aid Treatment |
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Written Examination |
Practical Pool Exercises: (year around in a heated pool)
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Survival Floating |
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Use of Clothing as Bouyant Devices |
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PFD: Swimming While Donning, HELP Position Demo, Hypothermia Protection |
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Water Entry From a Height |
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Life Raft Boarding From Water; Assisting Exhausted Survivor in Life Raft |
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Rescuing a Drowning Person While Wearing PFD |
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Escaping an Oil Fire on Water Surface |
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Helicopter Crash Simulation Escape |
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Life Ring Toss |
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| Course Date/Time: Every Mon. & Wed. - Thurs. 8:00 a.m. - Tues. 11:00 a.m. |
