FREE Safety Training Offered
for Commercial Fishermen in Ketchikan
September 29, 2010
Wednesday
Ketchikan, Alaska - A 10-hour fishing vessel safety and drill
conductor course will be offered in Ketchikan on Saturday November
6, 2010 at UAS - Ketchikan campus, Robertson Room 115 from 8am
- 7pm. The Alaska Marine Safety Education Association (AMSEA)
is offering this course which meets the training requirements
for commercial fishing vessels. It is available FREE to commercial
fishermen because of funding from National Institute of Occupational
Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the USCG.
Participants practice hands-on
in the water and on a vessel, with emergency equipment that should
be onboard any commercial fishing or other sizeable vessel -
PFDs, life rafts, immersion suits, EPIRBs, fire extinguishers,
and practice emergency procedures like man overboard, abandon
ship, fire fighting and flooding control.
Those interested in this course
or wanting additional information should contact AMSEA in Sitka
at 907-747-3287 or www.amsea.org.
Source of News:
Alaska Marine Safety Education
Association (AMSEA
www.amsea.org
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