To provide personnel on passenger carrying vessels (12 or more passengers, 500 gross tonnage or more) with standards for familiarization, basic safety training, and competencies, in order to cope with hazards and emergencies.

To provide seafarers with an understanding of measures to be taken in order to ensure safe operation of passenger carrying vessels.

The course meets the requirements of Transport Canada TP Document 13024 Training Standards for Personnel on board Passenger Carrying Vessels.

PROGRAM CONTENT

This program will cover the following topics:

• Crowd Management Training
• Familiarization Training
• Safety Training for Personnel providing direct service to Passengers
• Passenger Safety Training
• Crisis Management and Human Behaviour Training

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The aim of the course is to refresh the seafarers’ skills in the operation of Fast Rescue Boats/Craft, and is designed to comply with the regulations.

Seafarers qualified in advanced firefighting in accordance with Chapter VI, Section A-VI/2, paragraph 11 of the STCW Convention shall be required, every 5 years, to provide evidence of having maintained the required standard of competence to undertake the tasks, duties, and responsibilities listed in column 1 of table A-VI/2-2 of the Convention.

PROGRAM CONTENT

This course meets the requirements of Chapter VI, Section A-VI/2, paragraph 11 of the STCW Convention, including the 2010 Manilla Amendments.

This program includes

• Safety Principles
• Pre-launch preparation and procedures
• Launching and recovery
• Maneuvering FRB in various conditions
• SAR patterns
• Capsize and recovery

Practical training includes:

• FRB handling, including launching and recovery
• FRB maneuvering in various sea states and conditions, including high speed and low speed
• Pacing and towing with other craft, including other survival craft
• FRB capsize and righting
• Search and Rescue patterns, including PIW rescue
  

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The aim of the course is to refresh the seafarers’ skills in basic emergency duties, and fire fighting techniques and fire/emergency response planning.

Seafarers qualified in advanced firefighting in accordance with Chapter VI, Section A-VI/3, paragraph 4 of the STCW Convention shall be required, every 5 years, to provide evidence of having maintained the required standard of competence to undertake the tasks, duties, and responsibilities listed in column 1 of table A-VI/3 of the Convention.

PROGRAM CONTENT

This course meets the requirements of Chapter VI, Section A-VI/3, paragraph 5 of the STCW Convention, including the 2010 Manilla Amendments.

This program includes

• Safety Principles
• Fire Cause and Prevention
• Fire fighting gear, and regulatory requirements
• Fire fighting systems, including hydrants, hoses, and nozzles
• Fixed fire extinguishing systems
• Structural fire protection
• Training of crew members, including communication and ventilation
• Management and control of injured persons
• Case study review

Practical training includes:

• Main Vessel fire fighting systems, including hose work
• Inspection of fire fighting equipment
• Extensive use of portable fire fighting arrangements
• Rescue operations, including care and control of casualty

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The aim of the course is to refresh the skills of those who are assigned to crew a ship’s lifeboat or rescue boat, other than a fast rescue boat, with the knowledge and skills to safely and efficiently carry out those duties.

Seafarers qualified in survival craft and rescue boats other than fast rescue boats in accordance with Chapter VI, Section A-VI/2, paragraph 4 of the STCW Convention shall be required, every 5 years, to provide evidence of having maintained the required standard of competence to undertake the tasks, duties, and responsibilities listed in column 1 of table A-VI/2-1 of the Convention.

PROGRAM CONTENT

This course meets the requirements of Chapter VI, Section A-VI/2, paragraph 5 of the STCW Convention, including the 2010 Manilla Amendments.

This program includes

• Discussion and demonstration of various davit/launching arrangements
• Discussion and demonstration of various lifeboat and survival craft types
• Liferafts, rigid hull liferafts, and marine evacuation systems
• Survival, first aid and rescue
• Helicopter Assistance

Practical training exercises will be conducted in water.  These exercises will include:

• Operate in a safe and effective manner an enclosed lifeboat on open water
• Approach and recover a crew over board into the enclosed lifeboat safely and effectively, acting as coxswain and as crew
• Take a liferaft or lifeboat in tow safely and effectively with an enclosed lifeboat, acting as coxswain and as crew
• Operate the enclosed lifeboat in various sea and swell conditions
• Steer compass courses as directed to move the enclosed lifeboat clear of danger in reduced visibility
• Conduct voice communications over the VHF radio as appropriate for an abandonment situation
• Launch and recover an enclosed lifeboat under gravity davits safely and efficiently using a releasing painter
• Pace with an FRB in order to transfer castaways safely and efficiently for transfer to a safe place
• Participate in a simulated abandonment into the ocean wearing an immersion suit, launch, inflate and board a liferaft and be rescued by an FRB

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