Course Description
This programme is designed to meet the initial training and assessment requirements for STCW Certification of Proficiency in Fast Rescue Boats; STCW Reg VI/2 para2 & Sec A-VI/2-2 para 7-10 (model course 1.24).
Why choose this course?
Who is the course for?
This programme is designed to meet the initial training and assessment requirements for STCW Certification of Proficiency in Fast Rescue Boats; STCW Reg VI/2 para2 & Sec A-VI/2-2 para 7-10 (model course 1.24).
What certificate will i receive?
Upon successful completion of the course, delegates will be awarded with a GSS Group STCW certificate approved by the Marshall Islands, valid for 5 years.
What can the course lead to?
What is the duration of the course?
The optimum ‘contact time’ for this
training programme is seen as 24 hours over 3 days.
What are the entry requirements?
The prerequisites for the training programme are:
A valid STCW PSCRB Certificate from an approved training centre.
Training activities contained within this product may include physically demanding and potentially stressful elements. All personnel who participate in such activities must be capable of participating fully. As a minimum, to ensure that prior to participating in practical exercises the learner is declared fit, in that they:
1. Possess an employing company approved medical certificate equivalent to an offshore medical certificate; or
2. Undergo medical screening by completing an appropriate medical screening form provided by GSS.
What does the course cover?
The aim of the course is to give seafarers the essential education and training who are required to take charge of a Fast Rescue Boat, with particularly focus on:
• Understand the construction, maintenance, repair and outfitting of fast rescue boats.
• Take charge of the launching equipment.
• Take charge of a fast rescue boat as commonly fitted, during launching and recovery.
• Take charge of a fast rescue boat after launching.
• Operate a fast rescue boat engine.
Our course is run with an inboard engine boat and jet engine boat.
Course Summary
- Safety precautions and equipment
- Launching and operating Fast Rescue Boats, carrying out rescue operations
- Practicing various search patterns
- Operating the boat on open water, with considerations for the influences of currents, wind, and waves
- Dealing with a drowning person
- Towing with the Fast Rescue Boat
- Handling means of communication and emergency beacons
How is the course assessed?
Learners will be assessed against the theory outcomes through a written test.
Learners will be assessed against the practical criteria, through observation of them completing a series of manoeuvres and rescue exercises.
Course info
- Certificate
- STCW Certificate - Valid for 5 years
- Duration
3.0 days
- Who is it for
For those who wish to be proficient with Fast Rescue Crafts
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