Seeking Advice

You should take a Basic Safety Training (BST) course.

Quite often, you hear this called the ‘STCW’ course, which can be confusing. It has 4 elements; Personal Survival, Basic Fire Fighting, First Aid, and Personal Safety and Social Responsibilities, taken over 5 days.

Here’s a list of places that offer it…

http://www.uscg.mil/nmc/training/bst.pdf