Basic Maritime Safety and Firefighting
OX-WA-1801 - Seamanship, Other
Cadets earn a U.S. Coast Guard approved Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW) 2010 professional mariner basic training certification
Cadets earn a U.S. Coast Guard approved Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW) 2010 professional mariner basic training certification
learn to respond to shipboard emergencies
learn to respond to shipboard emergencies
- Compliance with emergency procedures
- Safe working practices, preventing marine pollution
- Effective shipboard communications, effective human relations
- Types of emergencies
- Emergency communications, emergency equipment
- Hypothermia and human performance
- CPR and emergency medical overview
- Proper use of life jackets, immersion suits, liferaft, abandon ship gear
- Basic firefighting
- Understand the relationship of the fire tetrahedron to extinguish fire
- Live firefighting exercise, extinguish a flammable liquid fire using various types of fire suppression agents
- Basic patient transport
This is the actual basic training course required for professional mariners. Cadets can use the certification to apply for a USCG Merchant Mariner Credential to work in the maritime industry.
This is the actual basic training course required for professional mariners. Cadets can use the certification to apply for a USCG Merchant Mariner Credential to work in the maritime industry.
Course presented in cooperation with:
Course presented in cooperation with:
