RYA Basic Sea Survival Training - 1-day programme
This is the programme of your 1-day Basic Sea Survival Training with theoretical and practical aspects which will be covered.
Preparation for Sea Survival
o Survival difficulties
o Survival requirements
o Equipment available
o Training drills and their importance
o Actions prior to abandonment
Life jackets and life rafts
o Life jacket: design, correct donning, use and entering water from a hight
o Safety harness: design, use and securing arrangements
o Life raft: designs, stowage and containment, launching, abandoning the vessel, righting, boarding, equipment and initial actions
Principles of Survival
o Protection
o Location
o Water
o Food
o Survival craft ailments
o Medical aspects of survival
o Secondary actions
o Subsequent actions
o Raft management
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Practical Wet Drill
o Life raft launching
o Boarding dry and wet
o Entering water from a hight
o Methods to increase chances of survival in the water
o Helping injured people on board
o Raft capsize drill
o Final abandonment drill
Search and Rescue
o Rescue by helicopter or vessel
o Role of Coastguards
o International SAR organisation
o Other services
