STCW Updated Proficiency in Personal Survival Techniques (U-PST) Course Overview

The Personal Survival Techniques Refresher / Revalidation Training aims to provide delegates with the essential training in order to maintain proficiency as required in the STCW 2010 Manila Amendments. This STCW refresher course runs for half a day and involves time in the classroom and pool facility. It’s supervised by fully qualified instructors making it suitable for non-swimmers.

• For those who require more than just Updated PST training, you may wish to look at our STCW Revalidation Training Block Route 1
• We also provide the initial/basic STCW Personal Survival Techniques course for those who don’t already hold an existing certificate

Course Content:

Theoretical element:

• Main types of maritime emergencies
• Types of life-saving appliances
• Survival craft
• Equipment in survival craft
• Location of personal life-saving appliances
• Principles of survival during a maritime emergency

Here’s what the practical session covers:

• How to don a lifejacket
• How to safely jump from a height into water
• How to right an inverted raft whilst wearing a lifejacket
• How to swim whilst wearing a lifejacket
• How to board a survival craft from the water whilst wearing a lifejacket
• What initial actions you need to take when boarding survival craft
• How to operate survival craft equipment

NOTE – This PST training course is supervised by fully qualified instruc