GWO Sea Survival Refresher (SSR) - US

BASIC SAFETY TRAINING – SEA SURVIVAL REFRESHER

(ONLY FOR THOSE ENROLLING IN THE OFFSHORE VERSION OF THE COURSE)

Assessment Method: Direct Observation/Oral Questioning (as appropriate)

1. Apply abilities to act independently or with others in a simulated emergency at sea.
2. PPE inspection, donning, and buddy checks descending and disconnecting.
3. Multiple transfers from dock to vessel to structure to vessel to dock while following commands.
4. Perform 1 coherent scenario from entering water to getting into rafts and recovering casualties and being rescued.
5. Individual floating and swimming techniques with and without a life jacket.
6. Donning life jacket in the water (rigid).
7. Group swimming techniques.
8. Life raft techniques from righting, to entry, to immediate and further actions and exiting raft.
9. First aid treatment for hypothermia.
10. Signaling for rescue techniques.
11. Donning HELO sling in the water.