
STCW Updated Proficiency in Personal Survival Techniques (PST)
STCW Updated Proficiency in Personal Survival Techniques (PST)
Price
£100.00 ex VAT
Duration
1/2 Day
Location
Glasgow
Certifying Authority
Maritime & Coastguard Agency
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