Personal Survival Techniques
The PIMS Personal Survival Techniques course develops essential knowledge and practical awareness for responding to emergencies at sea. The programme focuses on individual survival, lifesaving equipment, surviv...
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Program Overview
The PIMS Personal Survival Techniques course develops essential knowledge and practical awareness for responding to emergencies at sea. The programme focuses on individual survival, lifesaving equipment, survival craft, emergency communication and safer behaviour following maritime emergencies.
Participants develop awareness of water-survival techniques, lifejackets, immersion suits, life rafts, distress signals, hypothermia prevention and search-and-rescue procedures.
What You'll Learn
- Introduction to Personal Survival at Sea
- Maritime Emergency Awareness
- Fire, Collision, Grounding and Abandonment Scenarios
- Maritime Safety and STCW Awareness
- Lifejackets and Immersion Suits
- Donning and Maintenance of Survival Equipment
- Lifeboats and Life Rafts
- Launching and Boarding Survival Craft
- Swimming and Floating Techniques
- Group Survival Methods
- Distress Signals and Emergency Communication
- EPIRB and SART Awareness
- Handheld Radio Awareness
- First Aid and Shock Awareness
- Hypothermia Prevention
- Search and Rescue Awareness
- Practical Water-Survival Drills
- Life-Raft Boarding Exercises
Empowering professionals with knowledge, practical understanding and stronger workplace skills.
PIMSWho Should Attend?
This PIMS maritime-safety course is suitable for seafarers, maritime professionals, offshore oil and gas workers, port and dock personnel, maritime trainees and contractors working in marine environments.
Key Benefits
After completing the programme, learners should be better prepared to:
- Develop practical personal-survival awareness at sea
- Improve maritime emergency-response knowledge
- Understand correct use of lifesaving appliances
- Improve water-survival and life-raft awareness
- Recognise distress and emergency communication methods
- Improve hypothermia and First Aid awareness
- Support safer behaviour during maritime emergencies
Assessment & Evaluation
- Assessment Type: Written examination and practical evaluation.
- Format: Multiple-choice questions, short answers and water/life-raft survival drills.
- Total Questions: 40 theory questions plus 1 practical assignment.
- Passing Score: 70%.
- Written Duration: 60 minutes.
- Practical Duration: 2 hours.
- Certification: Personal Survival Techniques (PST) Certificate upon successful completion.
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