Fowey Maritime Centre RYA Basic Sea Survival Course summary
The aim of the course is to give an understanding of how to use the safety equipment carried on small boats, including a practical session in launching and boarding a liferaft in the local swimming pool.
Fowey Maritime Centre - RYA Basic Sea Survival Course summary
RYA Basic Sea Survival Course summary
There is no requirement for any prior knowledge of engines, and although we cannot teach you how to strip and rebuild your engine in the one day, we will make sure that you know what all the bits are called, what they look like, where they are situated and how to check and change them to prevent troublesome breakdowns and carry out your own routine maintenance!
Duration
1 day non-residential.
The Course
Preparation for sea survival
- Survival difficulties
- Survival requirements
- Equipment available
- Actions prior to abandonment
Lifejackets and liferafts
- Lifejacket design and construction - correct donning procedure, purpose and use of lifejackets
- Safety harness - purpose in use
- Liferafts
- stowage and containment on board
- types, design and construction, launching
- abandoning the vessel and boarding liferaft
- righting a capsized liferaft
- liferaft equipment
- initial actions to be taken in a liferaft
Principles of survival
- Methods to increase chances of survival
- Signs, symptoms and treatment of hypothermia
- Symptoms, method of treatment for sunburn, heat exhaustion and heatstroke
- Survival routines to aid location
- Correct use of pyrotechnics and other location aids
- Water rationing - procedures
- Dehydration and preventative measures
- Food rationing and sources of food
Survival craft ailments
Raft Management
- Azimuth stabilization
Search and rescue
- Rescue by helicopter or vessel
- Role of HM Coastguard
- UK and International SAR Organisation
- Other services
