* VIDEO * Marine Safety MED A2 Course, Fire Fighting, Life Raft Use, Distress Signals
I have just spent the last four days in Port Cobourg at a Transport Canada Centre taking this course.
The Canadian MED A2 is your Course for Safety at sea for Passenger-Carrying Vessels. Recommended for officers and crew of small commercial passenger vessels. Topics covered include marine hazards and emergencies, emergency preparedness and response, fighting shipboard fires, sea survival, distress signals, inspection and maintenance of emergency equipment and passenger control in emergency situations.
Check out the video below…
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[…] • Explanation of where all the safety equipment is, Operations of EPIRB, SPOT, Ditch Bag, Flares and other standard equipment. Our boat is equipped with all ISAF Offshore Category 2 equipment, we plan to do some of these class races over the next couple of years. We have an 8 man Offshore Ocean Life Raft, we discussed how to use it, when and how to deploy. We also covered Fire on board, and where the three fire extinguishers are. For more details on this also see this post. http://www.sailboatcruise.ca/2012/04/06/marine-safety-med-a2-course-fire-fighting-life-raft-use-dist… […]