Free Fall Lifeboat coxwain

Trainees

All personnel on board a vessel equipped with free-fall lifeboats.

Background

Be the holder of a medical certificate from the seafarers’ doctor mentioning the ability to navigate not older than 12 months.

Objective

To be able to use safely a free-fall lifeboat.

Duration

6.5 hours of which 1.5 hours of theory and 5 hours of practice.

Number of trainees

Minimum 4 / Maximum 6

Reference

Division 221 Article 221- III /19/3.4.4 MSC.1/Circ.1206 on the measures aiming at avoiding accidents involving lifeboats.

Programme

Theory training :

– Emergency situations
– Abandonment of the ship
– Orecautions to be considered
– Releasing system
– Free-fall lifeboats

Practical training :
– Launching using a davit
– Retrieving using a davit
– Free-fall launching
– Protection implementation

Venue

CESAME à Saint Malo

Trainers

ENSM teachers

End of course assessment

No

Accreditation leading to the delivery of an STCW certificate

No