SUR301 STCW Personal Survival Techniques Refresher

Once qualified in STCW Basic Safety training, seafarers are required to provide evidence every five years that they have maintained the required standard of competence in STCW Personal Survival Techniques and STCW Fire Prevention and Fire Fighting. Evidence that can be accepted includes onboard training and experience that has been properly recorded and certified.

While records of onboard training and experience meet part of the evidence requirement, it is recognized that there are a number of competencies that require additional specialist training ashore. We have developed refresher courses that are MNZ approved to meet the STCW refresher requirements.

Our STCW refresher courses are bundled together for your convenience. So if you need this STCW Personal Survival Techniques refresher and the STCW Fire Prevention and Fire Fighting refresher, you will find that they are conveniently timetabled one after the other.

If you need both refresher courses, please enrol for this course here now, then jump over and also enrol on STCW Fire Prevention and Fire Fighting refresher.

Course Aim

This refresher course is designed to meet the STCW refresher training requirements for STCW Personal Survival Techniques.  The course is designed for students who have already completed the full STCW Personal Survival Techniques course.  This course meets the refresher training requirements in accordance with the provisions of Section A-VI/1-1 of the International convention on Standards of Training Certification and Watch-keeping for Seafarers (STCW) 1978, as amended.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Don and use an immersion suit
• Safely jump from a height into the water
• Right an inverted lifer-raft while wearing a lifejacket
• Swim while wearing a lifejacket
• Keep afloat without a lifejacket

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