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Duration: 1 Day


Previous Experience Required: None

Certification: At the end of the course you will be issued with the RYA Sea Survival Certificate.


Course Overview: The RYA Sea Survival course is designed for all small craft users. The importance of having the knowledge to survive if you end up in an emergency situation at sea is crucial. It is a well proven fact that people with appropriate training are more likely to survive.


Cost: £135.00


This course fulfils the requirements for those seeking commercial endorsement for the following certificates:


Course completion certificates:

  1. •RYA Level 2 Powerboat Certificate

  2. •RYA Advanced Powerboat Certificate (only if issued before 1 January 2005)

  3. •RYA Day Skipper (tidal) practical course completion certificate

  4. •RYA Day Skipper (non-tidal) practical course completion certificate, (only if supported by a Day Skipper shorebased course completion certificate)


Certificates of competence:

  1. •RYA Advanced Powerboat Certificate of Competence

  2. •RYA Yachtmaster Coastal Certificate of Competence

  3. •RYA Yachtmaster Offshore Certificate of Competence

  4. •RYA Yachtmaster Ocean Certificate of Competence


Itinerary: 0900 until approximately 1700


What's Included:

All course materials including the RYA book “Sea Survival Handbook”.

Teas & coffees available.

Cruising is one of the safest leisure sporting activities, and 99.9% of those afloat will never use their liferaft. However, if you are part of the unlucky 0.1% your chances of survival will be greatly increased if you understand how to use the equipment and how to help yourself.

The course covers a mixture of theory and practical elements. In the morning you will be taught the theory of sea survival, including how to launch a liferaft, what the initial and subsequent actions in a raft are, along with longer term survival. Other topics covered include the design of lifejackets, hypothermia and Search and Rescue techniques.

In the afternoon, the training moves into the practical elements of sea survival, in the comfort of a heated indoor swimming pool. Experience first hand launching, righting  and entering a liferaft. Firstly from the side of the pool, moving to climbing into a liferaft from in the water.  During the practical session you will also be taught in the water personal and group survival techniques.


Course topics include:

  1. •liferafts and the equipment they contain

  2. •survival techniques

  3. •the design of lifejackets

  4. •medical aspects of sea survival

  5. •search and rescue techniques