Basic Boat Operations: 2-days
Prerequisite:
-No boat experience necessary
-Boat Launch and Recovery

Learning Objective:
To train a coxswain to operate a variety of small crafts. Coxswain will demonstrate basic skills such as safety, operation, and the launch and recovery of small boats. This graduate is qualified to work in a maritime unit, but not qualified to operate independently. Course provides basic orientation of small craft operations, stopping short of specific skills like rescue and boarding.

• Pre and Post Operations Procedure
• Basic coxswain skills
• Underway piloting to include obstacle avoidance, slow and high speed operations
• Trailer, piersode and beach launch recovery
• Safety procedures to include dewatering, paddling, and mechanical patches

Instant Rescue Boat Ops: 1-day
Prerequisite:
-Basic boat operations

Learning Objective:
Demonstrate the rescue advantages of the Instant Inflatable Boat.

• Rescue with auto inflatable boat
• Mass rescue using life rafts
• Difficult access (off bridge, quake walls, airfields)
• When traditional boats have no access
• Learn to use inflatable boats to keep rescues from becoming body recovery missions