RYA Sea Survival Course

Aim: To give persons who go to sea in small motor or sailing vessels the basic knowledge and practical experience of personal survival principals and techniques to aid survival.

Course Objectives

• Know action prior to abandoning
• Know what should be carried aboard (the boat)
• Know the importance of training and exercises
• Be able to don a lifejacket correctly
• Launch and board a liferaft (dry and wet)
• Right a capsized raft with consideration of weather
• Know the contents of a grab bag

Course Objectives
Practical Wet Drill. ( 2 hours in pool ).

• Liferaft launching and boarding procedures.
• Recover injured or unconscious person into liferaft.
• Right a capsized liferaft
• Carry out vital initial actions in liferaft
• Demonstrate the correct method of water entry

Course Objectives
Knowledge.

• Know principals of survival.
• The effects of immersion in cold water, and signs and symptoms of hypothermia and necessary treatment
• Know actions to aid location by rescue services
• Know actions to preserve body fluids.
• Recognise the causes and effects of cold injuries in a survival environment and know the correct treatment that should be given.
• Know the basic first aid to be given in survival environment.
• Know procedures for helicopter winching and other rescue organisations.