45. Boats - Training Ideas

 

 

Boats

  • Parts of the boat
  • Stowage of kit
  • Passenger balancing
  • Getting on the plane
  • Steering the boat
  • Coxswain commands
  • Elephants trunk
  • Rules of the road
  • Engine

Engine

  • Dead mans handle Telltale
  • Starting the engine including choke
  • Throttling
  • Gears - forward and reverse
  • Raising and lowering the engine
  • Connecting and priming the fuel
  • Fuel and Oil

Weather and Sea

  • Rule of twelfths
  • Beaufort wind scale
  • Effects of winds and currents on boat
  • Buoyage
  • Clouds

Wreck site Location

  • Transits GPS
  • Sonar Charts

Dive planning and marshalling

  • Dive slate completion
  • Role of Dive Marshall
  • Role of Coxswain
  • BSAC decompression tables

Diving

  • Picking up divers
  • Kitting up
  • Exits Entries
  • Assisting divers into boat
  • Diving Flag
  • Providing boat cover

Knots

  • Bowline Butterfly knot
  • Anchor bend
  • Sheet bend
  • Clove hitch

Shot lines

  • How to make a shot line
  • Requirements of a shot line
  • Deploying a shot line
  • Flaking
  • Shot line recovery

Equipment checklist

  • Flares2 x orange smoke, 2x red pinpoint or 2 x day/night flares
  • Oxygen Kit
  • Boat Keys
  • First Aid
  • Engine spares
  • Anchors
  • Paddles

Launching

  • Strap removal
  • Tailboard removal
  • Boat recovery
  • Winch operation

Miscellaneous

  • VHF Radio

 

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