A one-day course for anyone going to sea, providing and understanding of how to use the safety equipment on board your boat. A genuine lifesaver.
Cruising is one of the safest leisure sporting activities, and 99% of these afloat will never use their life-raft. However, if you are part of the unlucky 0.1% your chances of survival will be greatly increased if you understand how to use the equipment and hot to help yourself. It is a well proven fact that, in the event f an emergency at sea, people with training are more likely to survive
Course Topics include:
- life-rafts and the equipment they contain
- survival techniques
- the design of life jackets
- medical aspects of sea survival
- search and rescue techniques
An important part of the course is a practical session in a swimming pool. Experience first hand the problems of entering an uncooperative life-raft and assisting others whilst fully kitted out in wet weather gear and a life jacket
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