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Marine Safety Instructor Training (MSIT)

Intensive five-day USCG-accepted train-the-trainer course for people who want to teach marine safety, cold-water survival and onboard drills.

Description

The Marine Safety Instructor Training (MSIT) is AMSEA's U.S. Coast Guard-accepted train-the-trainer course, an intensive five-day program that trains individuals to teach cold-water survival procedures, the use of marine safety equipment and onboard safety drills. Trained instructors lead classes for commercial fishermen, businesses, agencies, recreational boaters and children.

Key features

  • Preparation for emergencies and the "Seven Steps to Survival"
  • Cold-water survival, including a pool session with PFDs
  • Sea survival, equipment, procedures and onboard drills, including live firefighting, life rafts, flares, immersion suits, EPIRBs and PLBs, vessel stability and station bills
  • Land survival, food and water in a survival situation
  • Cold-water drowning and hypothermia
  • Methods of instruction

Applications

  • Future marine safety instructors in port communities

Specifications

Course lengthfive days

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