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This series of videos has been produced to reinforce every seafarer's abandonment and survival training and to supplement every ship's personal survival manuals. The series of four videos and study guides cover the topics listed in SOLAS Chapter III (1996 Amendments - Regulation 35) and STCW'95 Code Table A - VI/1-1, which are requirements for all seafarers. PART ONE: MUSTER LISTS, DRILLS AND HELICOPTER OPERATIONS
The topics covered include: The muster list and the functions contained
in it. General Emergency alarm signal and the location of the muster or
assembly stations. regular drills must be held and substitute leaders
should regularly take charge of the special parties during emergency
drills. The proper donning of life jackets. PART TWO: ENCLOSED LIFEBOATS. FREEFALL LIFEBOATS AND RESCUE BOATS
The topics covered include: totally enclosed lifeboats. Their special life-saving features. The correct boarding of the totally enclosed lifeboat. The role of the coxswain and the lowering of the totally enclosed lifeboat from the ship and from within the lifeboat. How to operate the on-load and off-load release gear. The safe recovery and stowing of the lifeboat and rescue boat. The importance of ensuring that you are familiar with the systems on your lifeboats. The course the coxswain must take once the lifeboat is in the water. Freefall lifeboats, their operation and lowering. The role of the coxswain. The importance of calm boarding and correct strapping in for freefall lifeboats. Partially enclosed lifeboats and their operation. Tricing and bowsing arrangements for partially enclosed lifeboats. Lifeboat engines, their use and maintenance. The different types of immersion suits and donning them. The TPA and its use. The rescue boat and its operation including lowering and recovery. Correct techniques for recovery of a person in the water. The regular checking of stores, particularly pyrotechnics for all survival craft and rescue boats. PART THREE: LIFERAFTS AND OPEN LIFEBOATS
The topics covered include: The preparation and inflation of davit launched liferafts. Checking and boarding of davit launched liferafts. Lowering from within the liferaft. Marine Evacuation systems, their deployment and boarding. Marin-Ark Marine Evacuation System, deployment and boarding. The throw over liferaft, its preparation, and inflation. The checking and boarding of throw over liferafts. The righting of capsized liferafts. Techniques of recovering people from the water into liferafts. The open lifeboat, preparation including tricing, bowsing and securing the painter. Loading and lowering of open lifeboats. Releasing of open lifeboats with on-load release gear. Actions to be taken in open lifeboats once away from the ship. PART FOUR: SURVIVAL
It cannot be stressed too strongly that your ship is your best lifeboat. Abandonment should only be considered as a very last resort. The four principal dangers to be faced; 1) drowning 2) the inability to maintain body temperature 3) lack of water 4) lack of food. The implications of these dangers in terms of priorities of actions that need to be taken in survival craft are covered with guidedlines for protection, use of survival equipment [including detection equipment such as EPIRB, SART], organisation of personnel and leadership. Make yourself familiar with the life saving appliances on your ship. Make sure you know your duties as designated on the muster list. Study the ship's general emergency plan and participate fully in all training and drills. FREEFALL LIFEBOATS - An Introduction to
Just as with conventional lifeboats, the correct procedures must be followed when using freefall lifeboats. To ensure that every crew member knows and understands what to do in an emergency, it is necessary to be fully acquainted, not only with the inside of the lifeboat, but also drilled in evacuation procedures. In addition, on-site maintenance must be carried out to meet both company and legislative requirements. The objective of this video and workbook package is to inform all seafarers about freefall lifeboats. It will act as an introduction for new personnel, a refresher for existing crew and a detailed training aid for the specially trained lifeboat crew. The training package is also available as an interactive CD-ROM program, which combines the awareness of the video and the detail of the workbook with a variety of assessment questions. The complete package will enable the end-user to have a through understanding of Freefall Lifeboat procedures. RESCUE BOAT OPERATIONS
There are several types of rescue boat, from the larger fast rescue boats or FRB's, found on passenger Ro-Ro's and offshore, to the smaller rescue boats found on ships such as oil tankers and anchor handlers. The rescue operations carried out with all these boats are similar and include recovering casualties from the sea and towing survival craft. The video has been designed to cover the topics listed in the STCW requirements for fast rescue boat coxswains. The video is divided into 12 sections to enable fast access to the required information. It is accompanied by an extensive workbook that gives further details of the procedures demonstrated in the video and a huge amount of additional information useful to both rescue boat crews and those tasked with training them. The sections of the video and some of the issues they include are: Design and Equipment/Crew and Personal Protective Equipment/Launching Equipment/ Launching/In a Seaway. Graphics are extensively used to demonstrate the adjustment of the throttle to match the sea conditions and position of the boat on the waves. Search patterns/Picking up a Casualty/Recovery/Helicopter Operations /Righting the Boat/Other Operations/Maintenance and Training . The objective of this training package is to contribute to the training of crew operating rescue boats of all types. Only with good training and regular practice will the duties of the rescue boat crew become second nature -enabling them to save the lives of casualties when required. VIKING INFLATABLE LIFERAFT
This video shows how to use the throw overboard liferaft in an emergency, what you do when you are in a liferaft and how to use the emergency equipment. VIKING DAVIT LAUNCHABLE LIFERAFT
This video shows how to use the davit launchable liferaft in an emergency at sea plus general information about how to act in the liferaft and how to use the emergency equipment in the liferaft. VIKING MARINE ESCAPE SLIDE
Specially for crew members. The video shows how to operate the marine escape slide and the importance of training in the use of life saving equipment. VIKING MES
Shows pictures from the sea trial with the marine escape slide which took place in the Baltic Sea, September 1984. This video details activation of the slide system, evacuation of passengers from ship to the platform and rafts and load tests. IMMERSION SUITS TRAINING -
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Freefall Lifeboats are designed as
escape capsules for crew
abandoning ship or a rig, and provide a safe and swift means of evacuation.
They have been used for a number of years and have
been responsible for saving many lives. Recently a
crew of 14 escaped from their sinking vessel in heavy
seas off Newfoundland. As Lloyd’s List stated at the
time: “The men were able to launch (the freefall
lifeboat) despite the violent motion of the sinking
ship which would have made escape by a
conventional lifeboat doubtful. The men were later
picked up by a Spanish trawler and all were
unharmed”.
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It’s cold, it’s wet the weather is deteriorating and your only means of support is slipping away under your feet. The order has been given to abandon ship and the water does not look inviting.
Immediately a person is immersed in cold water, they gasp in shock and start to breathe rapidly as an automatic and uncontrollable response. This only lasts a minute or two, but if their head is not held above the water (for example by a lifejacket), they may not be able to stop themselves breathing water in and may drown.
For those who survive the cold shock, the next stage is the cooling of the muscles in the limbs, which comes on during the first 30 minutes in the water. This loss of strength can prevent the person from hanging on to an overturned boat, grasping a rescue line or operating equipment such as radios or signalling devices.
Hypothermia can set in within 30 minutes. The person starts to shiver in an attempt to produce more body heat, but if the cold is severe, their core temperature will nevertheless begin to drop. Death can occur at any stage of hypothermia, and even conscious survivors can collapse, become unconscious and die, after they have been rescued.
Wearing an immersion suit can make all the difference between life and death, because it keeps you warm. And, wearing an immersion suit in combination with a lifejacket can extend survival time by a considerable amount.
Immersion suits, also known as ‘survival suits’ and ‘abandonment suits’, are intended for use in ship evacuations, when rescue could be some time arriving. They are designed to save your life by providing insulation from the elements.
This new and essential training package from Videotel highlights why is there a need for such suits, when to use them, how to put one on and how long it takes, as well as the care that must be taken in the suit’s maintenance and storage.
Available on DVD with accompanying workbook or as a CBT program, the training package will encourage seafarers to fully understand and appreciate a vital piece of equipment that could be a lifesaver.
COLD WATER CASUALTY
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Code No 527 |
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Very graphically the film shows what happens to victims and the treatment of them when rescued. The film explains in detail what happens to the body when it is immersed into cold water, dealing initially with cold water shock, rapid breathing which raises blood pressure and loss of carbon dioxide to cause muscle cramps. It shows the danger of swimming immediately after immersion in cold water, which can lead to the victim drowning.
The film then shows what happens to victims who have been immersed for a period of time and how hypothermia can itself kill the victim through cooling of the system. Care is taken to show the correct techniques for the rescue of people and detailed explanation of first aid administered to a victim of drowning and then to a hypothermic person. Also covered is rewarming. This shows the difficulties involved in returning the body temperature to normal by immersion in a bath of water at a constant 40¢ªC. Immersion can also lead to complications. The film shows how to notice and deal with secondary drowning.
Emphasis is given to the correct use throughout of first aid, safety equipment, life jackets and immersion suits. Finally the will to survive is shown by two survivors interviewed in this film.
LIFERAFT OPERATIONS
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When things go badly wrong on board ship, launching a liferaft is the last resort. It can be the difference between survival or death. So it is essential that the crew should know what sort of liferafts they have on board, how to launch them, how to board them in an emergency, and how to help others who may be injured, exhausted or unconscious.
This programme shows the correct methods and procedures to be used with both davit launched and throw-over liferafts. The video explains the operation of the hydrostatic release mechanism, the use of the painter line, the procedure for boarding from the deck or from a rope ladder, and what to do when jumping is the only option.
Righting a raft when it has not inflated the correct way up is demonstrated, as is the way to board the raft from the water. The video also indicates the need for routine onboard inspection and maintenance. The instructional scenes are intercut with footage from a real emergency,which shows that even when extreme weather conditions make launching and boarding the raft very difficult, a well trained crew can survive through effective use of the liferaft.