To meet the minimum standard of competence for all trainees assigned to shipboard duties as required in Section A-VI/2 of the STCW Code, this course is designed to enable the trainees to successfully demonstrate the competences in Survival Craft and Rescue Boats Other than Fast Rescue Boats.

Specifically, at the end of the course the trainee should be able to:

• take charge of a survival craft or rescue boat during and after launch;
• operate a survival craft engine;
• manage survivors and survival craft after abandoning ship;
• use locating devices, including communication and signaling apparatus and pyrotechnics; and
• apply first aid to survivors.