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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Survive in the water
   • Use surface and underwater swimming techniques to escape from dangerous situations.
   • Enter water from a height and then surface.
   • Assume heat-retaining positions in the water as an individual and in a group environment.
   • Use improvised flotation devices to supplement buoyancy.
   • Fit personal flotation device (PFD) and maintain buoyancy through manual techniques.
2. Operate and maintain survival flotation craft and its resources
   • Deploy, inflate, right (upon inversion) and board survival flotation craft (multi-person or single-person life raft).
   • Escape from inside the survival flotation craft after inversion.
   • Rig survival flotation craft for protection from the elements and optimisation (or minimisation) of movement.
   • Inspect and maintain survival flotation craft throughout the survival period.
   • Manage survival resources.
   • Deploy and operate water and food procurement devices.
   • Operate signal equipment from the survival flotation craft.
   • Interpret and respond to recognition and response signals from search aircraft.
3. Survive in the water
   • Use surface and underwater swimming techniques to escape from dangerous situations.
   • Enter water from a height and then surface.
   • Assume heat-retaining positions in the water as an individual and in a group environment.
   • Use improvised flotation devices to supplement buoyancy.
   • Fit personal flotation device (PFD) and maintain buoyancy through manual techniques.
4. Operate and maintain survival flotation craft and its resources
   • Deploy, inflate, right (upon inversion) and board survival flotation craft (multi-person or single-person life raft).
   • Escape from inside the survival flotation craft after inversion.
   • Rig survival flotation craft for protection from the elements and optimisation (or minimisation) of movement.
   • Inspect and maintain survival flotation craft throughout the survival period.
   • Manage survival resources.
   • Deploy and operate water and food procurement devices.
   • Operate signal equipment from the survival flotation craft.
   • Interpret and respond to recognition and response signals from search aircraft.

Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence must satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria. If not otherwise specified the candidate must demonstrate evidence of performance of the following on at least one occasion.

fitting personal floatation devices

using duck dive technique

swimming 30 metres in clothing

treading water for a minimum of five minutes in clothing

adopting the HELP for at least ten minutes

rigging and using two different improvised flotation devices for at least five minutes each

surviving at sea over three hours using a multi-person raft by:

rigging the drogue

rigging the canopy

rigging water procurement devices including solar stills and reverse osmosis machines, and producing at least 300 millilitre of water

bailing

inspecting the craft

rigging and employing the following signalling devices from the survival craft:

heliograph – accurately illuminating a target at least 300 metres away

sea marker dye – deploying a sea marker dye effectively and safely using prevailing currents to optimise signature

flare – employing a signal flare effectively without threatening persons or survival equipment

use surface and underwater swimming techniques including at least one of:

duck diving

swimming while clothed

treading water in location

Deploy and operate water and food procurement devices including at least one of:

reverse osmosis machine

solar stills

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Knowledge Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence must satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria. If not otherwise specified the depth of knowledge demonstrated must be appropriate to the job context of the candidate.

aircraft response signals

emergency signalling

heat-retaining position

improvised flotation techniques

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