This course during which students are exposed to live fire scenarios in the Fire Training Unit (FTU) where they apply their training and use firefighting equipment to control the fire.

Personnel on board a ship must be able to deal with incidents of fire while a ship is at sea. All mariners are trained in firefighting and fire prevention techniques. Students are exposed to live fire scenarios in the Fire Training Unit (FTU) where they apply their training and use firefighting equipment to control the fire.

The fire fighting and prevention course includes:

• Introduction
• Brief on statistics
• Theory of fire
• Classes of fire
• Various Fire equipment
• Organisation and emergency procedures
• BA board and tally boards
• BA lecture
• BA confidence
• Firefighting practical from hose running, extinguishers to team firefighting live fires.
• Team building.
• Damage repair and stability awareness lecture
• Dry run
• Foam SAR
• Damage repair exercise.
• Student assessment
• Theory exam

Items to bring:

When joining the course please bring the following items with you:

wash gear, towel, t-shirt, soft shoes, extra set of clothes.