Classroom

Power Point presentations on the following:

• Personal Safety
• Communications
• Industry hand signals
• Fuelling the boat as per Transport Canada and Canadian Coast guard requirements
• Towing
• Ropes and knots
• Team Resource Management
• Overview of your boat
• Frequently used nautical terms
• Equipment- go over your specific equipment and boat(s)

Practical

• Trailering- assessment of abilities in back down the ramp
• Launching the vessel securely and professionally
• Recovering the vessel securely and professionally
• Close quarter operation – pivoting a boat on its axis (“spinning the boat on a dime”), docking and securing the boat to dock
• Introduction to propulsion and the use of trim on engines

Classroom

• Personal Safety – review of Level 1
• Communications- review of Level 1
• Towing from the side and aft
• Station keeping- keeping the boat in one spot in current
• Wave theory
• Transiting at 35 knots
• Introduction to search patterns
• Lifts and Parbuckling of victims in water
• Small boat pilotage
• Propulsion systems

Practical

• Review of trailering
• Review of Communications
• Review of docking and securing the vessel
• Propulsion practical by completing an obstacle course forward and backwards
• Engine Trim work for vessel handling
• Securing load – Crew, Victims and Equipment
• Introduction to Navigation – Dead reckoning, bearings
• Introduction to Chart Plotter and its purpose
• Introduction to Pacing along side
• Station Keeping

Classroom

• Tools used to provide surface rescue from a boat and what tools to use that are at your disposal.

Practical

• Team goes out on the water with all equipment and practice the use of the tools, including poles, throw bags, rescue rings, slings, parbuckling and victim recovery.
  Depending on level of ability of rescuers, practical sessions can include rescue swimmer with victim recovery and assistance. The use of a floating rescue basket can
  be incorporated simulating unconscious victim.

Classroom

• Review of all information learned to date – level 1 and 2 review
• Nautical terms enhanced
• Introduction to Charts- Paper- Classroom
• Speed/distance/time formula- Classroom

Practical

• Plotting a course
• Search Patterns exercise
• Small scenario to evaluate skills learned-practical- parbuckling and/or rescue a victim from water or beach
• Station Keeping
• Pacing