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
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