RYA Sea Survival Handbook

Offshore Personal Survival courses. It highlights the importance of having the correct safety equipment. It will also teach you how and when to use it, making it invaluable for anyone who takes a boat offshore for racing or cruising. This new edition has also been updated to include the ISAF Offshore Personal Survival Course syllabus and the latest information on sea survival. It is divided into two parts to match the syllabi of the two courses more closely and support other ISAF-approved Offshore Personal Survival courses.

Chapters include:

• Before you leave,
• Calling for Help,
• Understanding Weather,
• MOB Prevention,
• Fire Control.

This book is written by Keith Colwell, who works at the RNLI as a Community Incident Reduction Manager, managing a large team of volunteer safety advisers who provide safety advice to the boating community and the general public. Keith is an RYA Yachtmaster, an RYA Powerboat Instructor, an SRC instructor/assessor and an RYA and STCW’95 Sea Survival Instructor.