WSS – Water Survival Training for Swimmers

This course trains participants who can swim in the skills needed to survive in water following an emergency, including use of life jackets, survival techniques, group survival and boarding a liferaft.

• Understand water survival principles.
• Enter the water safely from height.
• Use life jackets correctly.
• Apply individual and group survival techniques.
• Board a liferaft and await rescue.

• Hazards of immersion and cold shock.
• Life jackets and personal flotation devices.
• Safe water entry.
• Survival positions (HELP and huddle).
• Group swimming and chain techniques.
• Liferaft boarding and righting.

• Offshore and marine personnel.
• Workers near water.
• Port and vessel crews.
• Swimmers requiring water survival certification.

Participants will receive an international certificate upon successful completion of the course.