Refresher course – Proficiency in Fast Rescue Boats

REFRESHER COURSE – PROFICIENCY IN FAST RESCUE BOATS (FRB)

Holders of a FRB Certificate due to expire every five years.

– Must hold a certificate of onboard training issued within the last five years, validated by the shipowner (qualifies the holder for a reduced number of training hours).
– Must hold a medical certificate from a seafarers’ physician, issued within the last 12 months, confirming fitness for sea service.

Demonstrate the maintenance of competence in accordance with the Order of 24 July 2013 regarding the revalidation of maritime vocational training certificates.
Upon completion of the training, the trainee will be able to:
• Understand the construction, maintenance, repair, and outfitting of fast rescue boats
• Take responsibility for the equipment and launching appliances—with which such boats are typically equipped—during launching and recovery operations
• Take responsibility for a fast rescue boat, including its standard equipment, during launching and recovery operations
• Take responsibility for a fast rescue boat after it has been launched
• Operate the engine of a fast rescue boat

8 hours over one day, including 2 hours of theory and 6 hours of practice

Minimum 6 / Maximum 8
47 trainees in 2023
10 sessions with an average of 5 trainees per session in 2023

Order dated 24 July 2013 relating to the revalidation of maritime vocational training qualifications.
STCW Convention section A-VI/2 table A-VI/2.2

PROGRAMME
Theoretical instruction :
– General information on rescue boats
– Releasing and recovery
– Operating a rescue boat
– Releasing and handling in adverse weather conditions
– Helicopter rescue methods
– Hypothermia
– Portable radio equipment

Practical training :
– Operational availability of the raft
– Rescue boat releasing and recovering rescue boat exercise
– Behaviour in the event of capsizing
– Handling at slow and steady speeds

CESAME in Saint-Malo  (31 Terre-Plein des Servannais, 35400 Saint-Malo)

ENSM teachers

Yes

Yes.
The course attestations are dematerialised, and can be accessed directly on your seafarer’s portal as soon as the training course has been successfully completed.
These attestations are valid for 12 months, during which time you can use the appropriate CERFA form to renew your certificates with Maritime Affairs.

Secretariat of State to the Prime Minister in charge of Maritime Affairs / Ministry for the Sea, as of 01/01/2022.

The certification/documentary evidence rate for this course is 100%.

The satisfaction rate for this course is 100% (2025).

605€

Funding options available through France Travail and the CPF

RS5857

For any questions, you may contact the school at:

cemafor@supmaritime.fr

Or by phone at 06.59.80.50.08