The purpose of this training is to give all persons intending to go to sea the essential basic knowledge and experience of personal survival principles and techniques that can be applied to maximize their chances of survival in the event of a marine casualty.

To develop competence in:

• Survive a sea in the event of ship abandonment

Knowledge, Understanding and Proficiency

• Types of emergency situations which may occur, such as collision, fire, foundering
• Types of life-saving appliances normally carried on ships
• Equipment in survival craft
• Location of personal life-saving appliances
• Principles concerning survival

Demonstrating Practical Competence in:

• Don a life jacket
• Don and use an immersion suit
• Safely jump from a height into the water
• Right inverted life raft while wearing a life jacket
• Swim while wearing a life jacket
• Keep afloat without a life jacket
• Board a survival craft from ship and water while wearing a life jacket
• Take initial actions on boarding survival craft to enhance chance of survival
• Stream a drogue or sea anchor
• Operate survival craft equipment
• Operate location devices, including radio equipment

This course is taught as a combination of off-site practical activities at specialist facilities for the pool as well as on-site classroom instruction at the Red Ensign training facility Medina Village, Cowes.

Please call us to confirm pre-requisites for this course

The PST course costs £95 +VAT