Water Survival / H.U.E.T Instructor Led

A four to five 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. Our competent instructors 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.

NOTE: This course does NOT satisfy the METS requirement. If you need HUET with METS, click the course above.

Tuition: $160

Course typically offered every Friday at 7:00am, or available upon request. Call us at 877.593.8693 to reserve your seat or for more information.

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Course Outline: 

1. Introduction to Water Survival
2. Review of API RP T-7: Training of Personnel in the Rescue of Persons in Water
3. Review of USCG Title 33 Part 143: Manned & Unmanned Platforms (USCG Inspection Review)
4. Emergency Situations (Types, Signals, Station Bill)
5. Survival Principles (Training & Drills, Attitudes, Platform Abandonment & Clothing as Bouyant Devices)
6. Personal Floatation Devices (Types I-V)
7. Life Ring Buoys, Life Floats, Life Rafts (Applications & Launching)
8. Survival Capsules
9. Signaling Equipment & Pyrotechnics
10. Helicopter Safety
11. Swing Ropes & Personnel Basket Risks & Precautions
12. Survivor Emergency First Aid Treatment
13. Written Examination

Practical Pool Exercises: (year around in a heated pool)

1. Survival Floating
2. Use of Clothing as Bouyant Devices
3. PFD: Swimming While Donning, HELP Position Demo, Hypothermia Protection
4. Water Entry From a Height
5. Life Raft Boarding From Water; Assisting Exhausted Survivor in Life Raft
6. Rescuing a Drowning Person While Wearing PFD
7. Escaping an Oil Fire on Water Surface
8. Helicopter Crash Simulation Escape
9. Life Ring Toss