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- The American Merchant Marine Veterans 26th Annual Convention at MITAGS June 4 - 7, 2012
- ATTENTION: MITAGS Shuttle Service Pick Up Zones at BWI Airport & Local Transportation Options
- MITAGS ECDIS training meets 2010 STCW Amendments
- Mariner Update - Able Seafarer to Mate
- 2012 Chief Mate - Master Schedule Now Available
- New Dates for Management, Communication & Leadership Course
- Post 9/11 GI Bill Benefit for CMM and AB to MATE Programs
Basic Safety Training - PMI (BST - PMI)
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Liferaft excercise with crewmembers donning immersion suits. |
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Course Description
This course is held offsite at Fremont Maritime Services.
This is required by the STCW 95 code for all mariners with safety or pollution control duties. Basic Safety Training combines all four elements of basic safety into a 5-day program. Training may be taken individually depending on attendee's needs. These courses are designed seafarers in order to provide immediate life-saving first aid until the arrival of first–aiders of greater training. This course is created to meet the standards of competency in elementary first aid, Fire fighting, personal safety and personal survival.
This course satisfies the following STCW95 and CFR training requirements:
- Table Section A-VI/1 paragraph 2.1.2,
- 46 CFR 11.205 (l) (4) Formerly 10.205(i)(4)
- 46 CFR 11.202 (b) (1) .Formerly 10.202(b)(1)
- 46 CFR 11.202(b)(2) Formerly 10.202 (b)(2)
- 46 CFR 11.202(b)(3) Formerly 10.202 (b)(3)
- 46 CFR 11.205(d) Formerly 10.205 (d)
- 46 CFR 11.205(e)(l)(ii) Formerly 10.205 (e)(i)(ii)
- 46 CFR 11.205(e)(2)(iii) Formerly 10.205 (e)(2)(iii)
- 46 CFR 11.401(g)(1) Formerly 10.401 (g)(1)
- 46 CFR 13.201(e)
- 46 CFR 13.301(e)
- 46 CFR 13.401(e)
- 46 CFR 13.501(e)
What You Will Learn
- 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 PFDs, Immersion Suits, Liferaft, Abandon Ship Gear
- Basic Firefighting
- Understand the relationship of the fire tetrahedron to extinguish fire
- Extinguish a flammable liquid fire using various types of fire suppression agents
- Basic Patient transport
What You Should Bring
- Comfortable clothes
- Closed toed shoes
- Clothes that are suitable to wear to a fire fighting class
- Swimsuit
- Student must be clean shaven for the SCBA portion in order to create a good seal
There are no pre-requisites for this class, but this course includes strenous physical avtivity. Mariners must be physcially fit and capable of moderate swimming exertion