Survival craft and non-fast rescue boat course in Motril

Certificate of Survival Crafts and Rescue Boats (not fast).
1. Possession of the Survival Craft and Rescue Boat Certificate (not fast) will be required for the following personnel:

a) To the Captains and Bridge and Engineering Officers of passenger ships.

b) To the Captains and Bridge and Engineering Officers of merchant ships with a gross tonnage greater than 75 GT.

c) To the Captains and Bridge and Engine Officers of fishing vessels greater than 20 meters in length.

d) To Sailors, Bridgemen and Enginemen, of merchant ships who have assigned functions in the management of survival craft and rescue boats on the ships mentioned in the previous subsections.

2. The Survival Craft and Non-Fast Rescue Boat Certificate will be obtained after successfully completing the course whose content is set out in Annex I and must comply with the competency standards of Section A-VI/2 of the Training Code, paragraphs 1 to 4.

3. The duration of the course will not be less than 24 hours, of which, at a minimum, it will consist of 12 hours of theoretical content and 12 hours of practical content.

Plan

Take charge of a survival craft or rescue boat during and after launching.

Construction and equipment of survival craft and rescue boats. Equipment components. Specific characteristics and facilities of the survival craft or rescue boat.

Different types of devices used to launch survival craft and rescue boats. Measures to be taken after abandoning the ship. Methods for launching survival craft in rough seas. Survival craft recovery methods.
Operate the engine of a survival boat.

Methods for starting and operating the engine of survival craft. Management of its different accessories and the fire extinguisher
Organize survivors and the survival craft after abandoning ship.

Handle survival craft in adverse weather conditions. Use of the painter, the floating anchor and the rest of the equipment. Rationing of water and food in survival boats. Helicopter rescue methods. Prevention and effects of hypothermia. Use of survival suits and thermal aids. Passing through breakers and stranded on the beach. Use of motor boats to gather and organize life rafts and rescue people.
Use location devices: communications equipment, signaling and pyrotechnic signals.

Radioelectric rescue devices on board survival craft. Use of RLS Beacons by satellite and RESAR. Pyrotechnic distress signals. Measures taken to maximize detection and localization possibilities.

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