Successful Course Completion:
- Requires a minimum score of 70% or better, unless otherwise specified by the student’s employer.
- Students will have no more than sixty (60) minutes to complete the exam.
- Grades shall be calculated by dividing the number of questions answered correctly by the total number of exam questions (38).
- Successful completion of practical sessions is also mandatory.
Successful Course Completion
- Requires a minimum score of 70% or better, unless otherwise specified by the student’s employer.
- Students will have no more than sixty (60) minutes to complete the exam.
- Grades shall be calculated by dividing the number of questions answered correctly by the total number of exam questions (20).
- Successful completion of practical sessions is also mandatory.
Course Content Summary
Breaks – 5 to 15 minutes (approximately every hour)
Lunch – 1 hour
8:15 - Offshore Travel / Safety
8:30 - Personnel Transfer
- Swing Rope
- Personnel Basket
8:45 - Arrival at the Rig
- Platform Orientation
- Station Bill
8:50 - Personal Flotation Devices
9:00 - Platform Abandonment
- ESD
- Escape Capsule / Survival Craft
- Stairs, Ropes & Ladders
- Entering the Water (Jumping)
9:15 - BREAK (15 Min)
9:30 - Water Rescue Devices
- Ring Life Buoys
- Boat Hooks
- Life Rafts
- Inflatable Boats
- Life Floats
- Rescue Platform
- Location Aids
- Visual / Audio
- Radios
- EPIRB
- GMDSS
- SARTS
9:50 - Man Overboard
10:05 - Emergency Drills
10:10 – BREAK (15 Min)
10:25 - Offshore Water Survival / HUET
- Aircraft Emergencies
- Aircraft Ditching – Problems & Causes of Death
- Under Water Egress
- Preparing For Ditching
- Have A Plan
11:00 - Survival Skills
- hazards
- Cold Water / Hypothermia
- Salt Water Survival Skills
- Safety & Survival Equipment / Location aids
- Signaling aspects on open water
- Immersion Injuries
11:30 - Preparing for Recovery
12:00 - Lunch
1:00 – Written Examination (60 Min Max)
2:00 – 4:00 PRATICAL SESSION
Practical training shall be limited to twenty (20) students per class and shall be documented using the Water Survival / HUET Practicals Checklist. There shall be two(2) instructors in the simulator for every two students in. For safety reasons, no more than four(4) students shall be in the simulator at one time. Students shall not exceed instructors by more than 2x’s for any exercise requiring entry into the water.
Water Survival / HUET Practicals shall verify the following skills:
- Practice for METS unit utilizing SWET chair (Minimum of two runs, or until student is demonstrated effective egress)
- HUET-Properly egress four times from METS simulator
- Invert with no exits
- Invert with exits
- Invert with exits, using cross cabin egress
- Invert with exits, using cross cabin egress, (students switch seats)
- Life Raft - Enter 8-man inflatable life raft from the deck and become familiar with tools inside.
- Don type 1 PFD while in the water, swim to the raft and prepare to board.
- Enter 8-man inflatable life raft from the water.
- Demonstrate how to right a raft that is inverted.
- Dons and successfully inflates PFD in water.
- Demonstrates how to use clothing to make a PFD.
- Demonstrates the HELP, HUDDLE, CARPET, and CHAIN survival formations.
- Treading Water – no flotation device
- Survival Swimming / Survival Float ( 5 minutes)
- Towing
Each student will be required to pass a written exam as well as a practical exam. The practical tests will involve entering the water and performing tasks that were taught earlier in the classroom. If the instructor feels that a student has not completed the practical part of the training to his satisfaction they will not be allowed to pass. The practical will consist of the following:
Reference Material / Documents
Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission
Boating Programs
International Association Safety & Survival Training
United States Search and Rescue Task Force |
