The Alaska Marine Safety Education Association (AMSEA) will offer a Fishing Vessel Drill Conductor workshop in Juneau on Saturday, Feb. 10, from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. The workshop will be conducted at the University of Alaska Southeast Technical Education Center, room 106, 1415 Harbor Way.
Instructor Neil Nickerson will cover cold-water survival skills; EPIRBs, signal flares, and mayday calls; man-overboard recovery and firefighting; flooding, damage control, and dewatering pumps; immersion suits and PFDs, helicopter rescue, life rafts, abandon ship procedures, and emergency drills.
AMSEA Drill Conductor workshops meet the U.S. Coast Guard training requirements for drill conductors on commercial fishing vessels. This workshop is an excellent opportunity for commercial fishermen and other mariners to gain hands-on training with marine safety equipment and learn best practices for surviving emergencies at sea.
This workshop is free to commercial fishermen at no cost, thanks to support from the U.S. Coast Guard, the Alaska Department of Commerce, Community & Economic Development, and the National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health. The cost is $175 for all others. Interested mariners may register at www.amsea.org or call (907) 747-3287.
