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Saturday 12 September 2026
10 am - 2 pm
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PAS311
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Add just one day to your study programme and be qualified to operate a vessel carrying any number of people on board.
This one-day session will test your communication skills and leadership through a range of real-time scenarios. This will not only breed confidence in you but also help you deal with the unexpected - an imperative out in the workplace and especially so in the maritime industry.
Once you have your SRL certificate and six months of sea services on a commercial passenger vehicle, you can perform a skipper’s (master’s) functions and duties on passenger ships less than 12 metres in length overall, carrying any number of passengers within restricted limits (which includes both enclosed and inshore limits).
Imagine operating a charter boat in the Abel Tasman National Park or skippering an engine-powered catamaran across the Kaikoura Canyon watching Humpback whales, dolphins and albatross breach for air then dive in search of food. Not too shabby, right?
Nelson Campus
Saturday 12 September 2026
10 am - 2 pm