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Introduction to Emergency Operations and Safety at Sea

Course ID: 195564
Alison
Course Location
3-4 hours
Free

Course Content

This free marine safety course explains emergency operations and various manoeuvring methods in different conditions. This course introduces you to emergency operations, safety actions and procedures to take in case of an emergency at sea. You will learn about the anchoring process, different search patterns, using tugs, as well as emergency steering. Study the process of rescuing a person overboard, how to locate the casualty and the recommended methods to apply in such a case and possibly save a life.

Course Details

Course Category
Course TypeOnline Learning
Course QualificationCPD Certificate
Course Duration3-4 hours
Course FeeFree
Entry RequirementsLike all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary.

At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives.

Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone.
Career PathWhat You Will Learn In This Free Course
• Identify the importance of emergency steering and its operation
• Analyse the IAMSAR Manual, search patterns and man overboard manoeuvre
• Describe the regulations that control the design of the emergency steering
• Explain the effects of a vessel’s pivot point in ship handling and the transverse thrust effect
• Describe docking and undocking manoeuvres in various conditions
• Outline the effect of tugs and precautions when using them in ship handling
Course Code3214

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