Sea Survival Training 23.04.16
The afternoon was spent completing an informative classroom based session and this was then put into practice in an evening session in the pool. Crew learnt sea survival techniques, medical aspects of sea survival and more about life jackets.
For example did you know that if you enter UK waters without a life jacket or protective clothing you’re chances of survival are very slim after 4 minutes but if you enter the water in a dry suit and life jacket you can survive more than 10 hours.
During the pool session crew members had the opportunity to put the classroom theory into practice.
Various subject areas were covered in the pool including;
Getting into the life raft and familiarisation of what equipment would be in the raft and what to put in your grab bag.
How to assist an unconscious casualty into the life raft
And, how to turn the lift raft over if it landed and went off upside down in the water.
