STCW 95 Short Courses.

Well, this week is set to bring some interesting courses my way. Tomorrow (Monday 12th, October) I have a Personal Survival Techniques course which is one of the STCW'95 training courses that all seafarers, ratings and officers must have. And then on Tuesday i have Elementary First Aid training, another STCW'95 course.

Personal Survival Techniques (PST) will mainly be a two hour wet drill which will conist of:

• Demonstrating a Dry Board
• Demonstrating initial and secondary vital actions
• Enter from a height (About 2m i think)
• Demonstrate swimming method for 1 person
• Demonstrate huddle
• Demonstrate Circle of Confidence
• Demonstrate 2 person huddle
• Demonstrate Crocodile in pairs
• Demonstrate towing a casulty by hand and foot
• Enter Raft Wet
• Demonstrate 2 man and 4 man lifts
• Demonstrate righting the inverting life raft

After completing all that competantly i should be issued with the certificate!

The other course that we should be doing on the Tuesday will be Elementary First Aid which i know virtually nothing about!

Just a short blog today, i must go and copy all my notes from last weeks classes into a more legible format!

Cheers,

Thomas.