NIMASA STCW PST case studies
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The Personal Survival Techniques (PST) module is one of the four elements of STCW Basic Safety Training, the minimum safety qualification required under the STCW Convention for seafarers serving on seagoing vessels. NIMASA, Nigeria's maritime administration, oversees and approves the training and assessment of seafarers under this framework. The NIMASA STCW PST case studies are 5 cases and about 3,383 words.
1Container hold fire at night: alarm timing, headcount and CO2 authority
At 02:40, your 1,200 TEU container ship is on passage in the Gulf of Guinea with 21 crew. A fire alarm activates from cargo hold 3.
726 words, about 4 min2Six in 11 °C water: prioritising the raft and recognising severe hypothermia
At 05:15 a 24 m stern trawler capsizes 12 nm off the Nigerian coast. Six survivors are in the water at 11 °C, air 18 °C, sea state 3, wind 20 knots.
670 words, about 3 min3Grounded and listing: a defective lifejacket, a man on the rail, and a suspect davit brake
Your 4,500 dwt general cargo ship has grounded and is listing 18° to starboard with a 2 m swell; wind is force 6 from the northwest. It is 23:50, visibility good, water 16 °C, air 24 °C.
712 words, about 4 min4Nine in a liferaft with no Mayday: canopy, sea anchor and which distress device first
You are one of 9 survivors from a sinking 80 m offshore supply vessel. You have boarded a 16-person inflatable liferaft, but the canopy is not closed, the sea anchor is still stowed, and the raft is drifting fast across a 2 m sea.
671 words, about 3 min5Monthly abandon-ship drill in port: marginal launch, missing immersion suits and a panicking swimmer
At 10:00 in port, the master schedules the monthly abandon-ship drill. Three of the 20 crew joined yesterday and have not completed familiarisation.
604 words, about 3 min