The Alaska Marine Safety Education Association (AMSEA) will offer a fishing vessel drill conductor workshop in Juneau on Saturday, Dec. 9, from 8 a.m.-7 p.m. The workshop will be conducted at the University of Alaska Southeast Technical Education Center, room 106 at 1415 Harbor Way. This workshop is free to commercial fishermen, 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 747-3287.
Instructor Neil Nickerson will cover cold water survival skills; EPIRBs, signal flares, and mayday calls; man-overboard recovery and firefighting; flooding and damage control; dewatering pumps, immersion suits and PFDs and helicopter rescue, life rafts, abandon ship procedures and emergency drills. AMSEA drill conductor workshops meet the USCG 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.
