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Training - Water Survival / H.U.E.T.

A four hour course to prepare students to avoid in-the-water incidents while educating them to minimize injuries and help survive in the event of a water evacuation. We provide lecture and actual water training exercises. API RP T-7, T-4, 75 SEMP and USCG Title 33 regulations recommend all offshore personnel receive annual training in water survival.

  • Introduction to Water Survival
  • Review of API RP T-7: Rescue of Persons in Water Training
  • Review of USCG Title 33 Part 143: Manned & Unmanned Platforms (USCG Inspection Review)
  • Emergency Situations (Types, Signals, Station Bill)
  • Survival Principles (Training & Drills, Attitudes, Platform Abandonment & Clothing as Buoyant Devices)
  • Personal Floatation Devices
  • Life Ring Buoys, Life Floats, Life Rafts (Applications & Launching)
  • Survival Capsules
  • Signaling Equipment & Pyrotechnics
  • Helicopter Safety
  • Swing Ropes & Personnel Basket Risks & Precautions
  • Survivor Emergency First Aid
  • Written Examination
  • Practical Pool Exercises: (year around in a heated pool)
  • Survival Floating
  • Use of Clothing as Buoyant Devices
  • PFD: Swimming While Donning, HELP Position Demo, Hypothermia Protection
  • Water Entry From a Height
  • Life Raft Boarding From Water; Assisting Exhausted Survivor in Life Raft
  • Rescuing a Drowning Person While Wearing PFD
  • Escaping an Oil Fire on Water Surface
  • Helicopter Crash Simulation Escape
  • Life Ring Toss
"Dedicated to Safety & Dedicated to You!"