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Bekwaamheidsbewijs reddingmiddelen

Survival craft and rescue boats (STCW A-VI/2-1)

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Start: Distress signals (Rule 37 and Annex IV)
Academy teaches the theory. Each certificate also needs a course and assessment at an approved training centre.

What you study

Emergencies

Coastal skipper
  • Abandoning ship: liferaft, grab bag and survival
  • Search and rescue: who to call and how help comes
Offshore skipper
  • Helicopter rescue and distress pyrotechnics
Seafarer: support
  • Emergency types, alarm signals and muster lists (STCW A-VI/1-1)
  • Life-saving appliances: lifejackets, immersion suits, lifeboats and liferafts
  • Personal survival: abandoning, in the water and in survival craft
Officer of the watch
  • Launching and handling survival craft and rescue boats (STCW A-VI/2-1)
  • Survival craft and rescue boats check

GMDSS

Coastal skipper
  • SART, portable VHF, GNSS, antennas and batteries

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Inshore skipper
  • Distress signals (Rule 37 and Annex IV)

Medical care

Coastal skipper
  • First aid and resuscitation
  • Hypothermia, cold-water immersion, drowning and heat illness
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