Water Survival Course

Water Survival/ HUET Course

An eight hour course to prepare students to avoid in-the-water incidents while educating them to minimize injuries and help survive in the event of a water evacuation. Our competent instructors provide lecture and actual water training exercises. API RP T-7, T-4, 75 SEMP and USCG Title 33 regulations recommend all offshore personnel receive annual training in water survival.

PREREQUISITES: None

COURSE CONTENT :

1.	Introduction to Water Survival
2.	Review of API RP T-7: Training of Personnel in the Rescue of Persons in Water
3.	Review of USCG Title 33 Part 143: Manned & Unmanned Platforms (USCG Inspection Review)
4.	Emergency Situations (Types, Signals, Station Bill)
5.	Survival Principles (Training & Drills, Attitudes, Platform Abandonment & Clothing as Bouyant Devices)
6.	Personal Floatation Devices (Types I-V)
7.	Life Ring Buoys, Life Floats, Life Rafts (Applications & Launching)
8.	Survival Capsules
9.	Signaling Equipment & Pyrotechnics
10.	Helicopter Safety
11.	Swing Ropes & Personnel Basket Risks & Precautions
12.	Survivor Emergency First Aid Treatment
13.	Written Examination

Practical Pool Exercises: (year around in a heated pool)

1.	Survival Floating
2.	Use of Clothing as Bouyant Devices
3.	PFD: Swimming While Donning, HELP Position Demo, Hypothermia Protection
4.	Water Entry From a Height
5.	Life Raft Boarding From Water; Assisting Exhausted Survivor in Life Raft
6.	Rescuing a Drowning Person While Wearing PFD
7.	Escaping an Oil Fire on Water Surface
8.	Helicopter Crash Simulation Escape
9.	Life Ring Toss