Persons successfully passing this course must:

– be familiar with: Possible emergency situations; types of Life Saving Appliances; equipment of Life boats and Life rafts; principles of personal survival; personal life saving equipment; the organization for preparations for abandoning ships, signals and activities for marshalling the crew and passengers in meeting points, activities for preparation for launching survival craft, activities in the Life boat and Life raft; actions to be taken in the water; main hazards in the water; regulations for issuing distress signals using various means (communication and signaling apparatus and pyrotechnics);

– the organization of fire fighting on board; the location of the fire-fighting equipment and the ways of evacuation; elements of the fire and the explosion (fire triangle); types of fire sources; the risks of origination and spreading of fire; fire-fighting equipment available on board ships, including fixed systems, fireman’s outfit, personal outfit, fire fighting devices and equipment, fire-fighting methods, rules for using the breathing apparatuses in fire-fighting and rescue operations;

– procedures and actions that can be immediately taken to administer first aid in case of incident, medical problem and illness pending the arrival of a doctor, or until the person in charge of first aid or medical care aboard ship arrives.

– be able to: don and use a lifejacket and an immersion suit, conduct roll calls of persons assigned to the various survival craft, be able to jump in to the water from white minimum 2 meters , to be able to swim wearing lifejacket and an immersion suit at least 10 meters; to be able to swim without lifejacket; to be able to enter in the Life raft from deck or platform from white minimum 2 meters; to be able for boarding in the Life raft from the water using embarkation lather; to be able to stream a sea anchor; to be able to use the equipment available on board the survival craft.

– don the fireman’s outfit; use different types of portable fire extinguishers; use self-contained breathing apparatuses; extinguish small fires caused by damage to the electrical equipment or burning oil products; extinguish large fires with water; extinguish fires with foam, powder or other suitable chemicals; enter and pass with a safety rope but without a breathing apparatus though spaces full of high-definition foam; fight fires in enclosed compartments full of smoke using a self-contained breathing apparatus; extinguish burning oil with a water sprinkler, with dry chemical powder or foam sets; carry out rescue operations with breathing apparatuses in compartments full of smoke;

– administer resuscitation in case of unconsciousness, restore breathing and heartbeat, perform splinting, put bandages, stop bleeding and transport an injured crew member;