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Proficiency in Survival Craft (PSC) (STCW-95 USCG)
Overview: The Proficiency in Survival Craft (PSC) course is designed to provide the training for candidates to launch and take charge of a survival craft or rescue boat other than fast rescue boat in emergency situations, in accordance with the STCW Convention and code Chapter VI Section A-VI/2 and Table A-VI/2-1.
Course Length: 32hrs | Course Required By: United States Coast Guard for STCW-95 (Lifeboatman) Endorsement
Course Objectives: Upon completion of Section A-VI/2-1, Proficiency in Survival Craft, the trainee will be able to:
- Recognize emergency signals in station bill and use of safety equipment
- Don a lifejacket
- Safely jump from a height while wearing a Type I lifejacket
- Board a life raft from the water while wearing a Type I and an immersion suit
- Right an inverted life raft while wearing a lifejacket
- Operate davits to launch and recover rescue craft
- Take charge of a survival craft or rescue boat during and after launch
- Operate a survival craft engine
- Command and operate a survival craft under oars
- Command survival craft using magnetic compass
- Manage survivors and survival craft after abandoning ship
- Retrieve man overboard using survival craft
- Use locating devices, including communication and signaling apparatus and pyrotechnics
- Stream a drogue or sea-anchor
- Operate survival craft equipment
- Primary Assessment of patient
- Call EMS
- Check for circulation, open airway, breathing, and for shock
- Perform CPR
- Stop bleeding
- Identify signs and symptoms of: trench foot, hypothermia, hyperthermia, fractures, and burns
- Apply first aid to survivors
Prerequisites: This course is intended to provide training for seafarers to launch and take charge of a survival craft or rescue boat in emergency situations. There are no particular educational requirements. All trainees must be certified by a doctor to be in good health. Written Exam: A minimum written test score of 70% is required. Students that fail the test will undergo remediation and be allowed 1 retest. A second failure requires repeating the course before they may test again. Performance Task: See Coast Guard-specific checklist requirements. Retraining: See Coast Guard-specific requirements. To register, click the "Register Now!" button on the left. Questions? Contact us at training@acadian.com.
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