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- Cap Sante International (CSI), provider of lifeboat, rescue boat and marine safety products, is behind the new facility and its manager of educational programmes, Capt Patrick Boyle, feels that interest will be maintained in safety training, even during an economic downturn.
- “CSI has two courses approved but we are starting with our fast rescue boat (FRB) course and will introduce our lifeboat course next year,” he told SASI.
- “The demand for training of mariners who are required to hold an FRB certificate should remain steady, but the economic downturn is bound to have some effect on how companies are allocating training resources for mariners assigned to a rescue boat but not required to hold an FRB certificate.
- ” As well as being USCGapproved, the FRB course is constructed after IMO model course 1.24 and satisfies STCW requirements.
- About half the course is theory (covering vessel handling, hook release systems, cold water survival, vessel maintenance, PPE and emergency communications).
- The rest is taken up with practical assessment carried out on a SOLASstandard 6.5m Noverania MX 650 FRB with a Costoldi jet. An identical vessel without engine and electronics is used for capsize training. A 50-person Schat-Harding motor lifeboat is used for pacing, transfer, coming alongside and towing drills. BC Ferries and Alaska Tanker are among the companies that have used the facility and have responded positively to the
training provision, Boyle said.