Survival Craft and Rescue Boats Other Than Fast Rescue Boats (SCRB)

Survival Craft and Rescue Boats Other Than Fast Rescue Boats (SCRB)

Scope

This Survival Craft and Rescue Boats Other than Fast Rescue Boats course covers the mandatory competences and the required knowledge, understanding and proficiencies prescribed in Section A-VI/2, Table A-VI/2-1 of the STCW Code.

This requires a total of thirty-two (32) instructional hours to cover the topics enumerated in Part B - Course Outline.

Training Outcomes

To meet the minimum standard of competence for all trainees assigned to shipboard duties as required in Section A-VI/2 of the STCW Code, this course is designed to enable the trainees to successfully demonstrate the competences in Survival Craft and Rescue Boats Other than Fast Rescue Boats.

Specifically, at the end of the course, the trainee must:  
  • take charge of a survival craft or rescue boat during and after launch;
  • operate a survival craft engine;
  • manage survivors and survival craft after abandoning ship;
  • use locating devices, including communication and signaling apparatus and pyrotechnics; and
  • apply first aid to survivors.
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