1 General1.1 Before training is commenced
the requirements of medical fitness, particularly regarding eyesight and
hearing, should be met by the candidate.
1.2 The training should be relevant to the provisions of the
International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), as amended.
In developing training recommendations, account should be taken of, but not
limited to, knowledge of the following items.
Theory
.1 The operator should have knowledge of:
.1.1 the safety precautions during launch and recovery of
a fast rescue boat;
.1.2 how to handle a fast rescue boat
in prevailing and adverse weather and sea conditions;
.1.3
the navigational and safety equipment available in a fast rescue boat;
.1.4 search patterns and environmental factors affecting
their execution;
.1.5 how to recover a casualty from the
water and transfer of a casualty to rescue helicopter and/or mother ship;
and
.1.6 the assessment of the readiness of fast rescue
boats and related equipment for immediate use.
Practical
.2 basic knowledge of the maintenance, emergency repairs, normal
inflation and deflation of buoyancy compartments of inflatable fast rescue
boats;
.3 basic knowledge and skills in surface swimming
in special equipment as well as handling and maintaining such equipment;
.4 the control of safe launching and recovery of the fast
rescue boat;
.5 skills in the use of communication and
signalling equipment between the fast rescue boats and helicopter and/or
mother ship;
.6 the handling of fast rescue boats in
prevailing weather and sea conditions;
.7 the ability to
right a capsized fast rescue boat;
.8 the ability to carry
out search patterns taking account of environmental factors; and
.9 the ability to safely recover a casualty from the
water, use the emergency equipment carried on fast rescue boats and transfer
of the casualty to a place of safety.