This course will enable the learner to effectively observe potential fire hazards and prevent such fires from occurring. In the unfortunate event of a shipboard fire, learners (crew members) are taught how to extinguish such fires. Our firefighting training starts with the fundamentals, teaching the learner about the composition, stages, and classes of fires and how to best extinguish each one.
| Duration: | 3 Days |
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| Entry Requirements: | None |
| Additional Requirements: | The learner should be able to be physically fit and not suffer from any medical conditions. (This course can be strenuous.) |
| Accreditation: | STCW 78 as amended in 2010 with the Manila amendments The certificate should be renewed every 5 years. |
| STCW Code: | A-VI/1-2 |
The learner gets to work with various types of firefighting equipment and the safety checks required, and we teach the best techniques on how to use such equipment before we heat things up in the fire simulator. Learners experience full-blown fires and learn how to effectively extinguish those fires, making use of different extinguishing mediums in a controlled environment.
Learning Objectives
The Student should have the following knowledge and practical skills at the end of the course:
- Describe how to minimise the risk of fire and maintain a state of readiness to respond to emergency situations involving fire
- Demonstrate the use of ship-boarding fire-fighting equipment
- Extinguish fires using the appropriate method, extinguishing medium, firefighting appliances and equipment
- Navigate safely through darkened, high-expansion foam-filled compartment wearing a lifeline
- Navigate safely through a darkened, smoke-filled compartment wearing breathing apparatus
- Conduct a search and rescue in a darkened, smoke-filled compartment
