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Fast Rescue Boats
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This course has been designed for Captains, Bridge and Engine Room Officers and all onboard personnel who have been assigned these responsibilities in vessels equipped with fast rescue boats.

Requirement: For the Maritime Administration to issue the certificate, trainees must have previously taken the "Survival Craft and Rescue Boats other than Fast Rescue Boats Certificate".

Goals

Train students to obtain the Certificate of Fast Rescue Boats according to amended STCW/78 Convention

Law: Amended STCW/78 Convention. Rule VI/2.2 STCW Convention, Section A-VI/2; Table A-VI/2-2 Code.

Orden FOM/2296/2002 September 4, 2002.

The Jovellanos Center is homologated by the DGMM Resolution of January 19, 2009.

Program

Understand the construction, maintenance, repair and outfitting of fast rescue boats.

Take charge of the launching equipment and appliance as commonly fitted, during launching and recovery.

Take charge of a fast rescue boat as commonly fitted, during launching and recovery.

Take charge of a fast rescue boat after launching.

Operate a fast rescue boat engine.

Practical training:

Fast Rescue Boat safe equipment.

Control safe launching and recovery of a fast rescue boat, with equipment as fitted.

Safe launching and recovery of a fast rescue boat, with equipment as fitted.

Right a capsized fast rescue boat.

Handle a fast rescue boat in prevailing weather and sea conditions.

Swim in special equipment.

Use communications and signalling equipment between the fast rescue boat and a helicopter and a ship.

Use the emergency equipment carried.

Recover a casualty from the water and transfer a casualty to a rescue helicopter or to a ship or to a place of safety.

Starting-up and operating the motor of a Fast Rescue Boat.

Duration

The course consists of 18 hours and it´s delivered over a period of  3 days.

Certificate

Valid for 5 years .