Blue Water is the longest established yacht crew training provider outside the UK with over 14 years experience.

Now Open in Fort Lauderdale Blue Water USA is proud to announce the opening of THE CREW TRAINING CENTRE in Fort Lauderdale.

Blue Water offer a full range of Deck, Engineering and Interior courses for those just starting out in the Yachting Industry and for those wishing to be Masters or Chief Engineers. If you have certificates issued by another country than the UK Blue Water can also assist in getting MCA Certificates of Equivalent Competency.

Blue Waters new fire training ground in Biot, France, have just been approved by theMCA. This facility has been specially constructed to provide realistic simulation of fire situations in yachts. It is an ideal environment for team training?

All courses are RYA, MCA and STCW95 approved.

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Fleetwood Offshore Survival Centre

Fleetwood Offshore Survival Centre (FOSC) was formed during the late 1980’s to offer survival training to the Merchant Navy and the Offshore Oil/Gas Industries. The centre is situated at Blackpool and the Fylde College’s Nautical Campus on the outskirts of Fleetwood.

During the early part of its existence FOSC had no purpose built facilities and used public swimming pools and slipways to provide practical survival training. The fire-fighting elements of the various courses were sub-contracted to Washington Hall International Fire Training Centre at Chorley.

Due to the increase in Offshore Oil/Gas Industry emergency response training needs, FOSC was able to fund the building of a purpose built river launching facility with both Single and Twin Fall Totally Enclosed Motor Propelled Survival Craft (TEMPSC). The centre now has a fleet of five TEMPSCs (a mix of Twin and Single Fall), three Fast Rescue Craft (FRCs) (a mix of Jet and Outboard Drives) and three support craft of varying sizes.

FOSC also designed, constructed and equipped an environmental training facility on the Nautical Campus site. The centrepiece of this facility is the 18mx16mx4m tank with a wave machine capable of producing a metre swell wave of various patterns. Additionally, darkness and rainfall can be created to provide extreme abandonment conditions.

FOSC continued to subcontract the fire-fighting requirements of their courses until August of 2001 when a purpose built fire training facility was opened.
This facility is approximately one mile from the main campus and its introduction has dramatically reduced the travelling time for delegates attending the Offshore Oil/Gas training courses.

During the early part of 2002 FOSC obtained accreditation to run the two STCW 95 Fire-fighting courses for the Merchant Navy. These were completely new to FOSC and in offering these courses a student for a deck officer’s certificate of competence can complete all the required training “in house” at the Nautical Campus.

From fairly humble beginnings FOSC has developed into a well-equipped training provider and has accreditation for the following organisation courses OPITO, OLF, MCA, RYA, IMO, HSE and STCW.

UKSA, United Kingdom Sailing Academy
(STCW95 Training and Comprehensive Yachting Training)
Isle of Wight, UK
Contact: Felicity Cornell Tel: 0044 (0)1983 294941
Email: felicity.cornell@uksa.org
www.uksa.org
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Coastguard Boating Education (STCW95 Training)
Auckland, New Zealand
Tel 0064 (09) 489 1850

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Maritime New Zealand (STCW95 Training)
Auckland Mail Service Centre
Tel +64 9 379 4997

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Lairdside Maritime Centre (STCW95 Training)
Wirral, UK
Tel: 0044 (0)1516470494

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SuperYacht Crew Academy (STCW95 Training)
Newport, NSW
Tel + 612 9979 9669

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Warsash Maritime Academy (STCW95 Training)
Southampton Hampshire
Tel +44 (0)1489 576161

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Maritime Professional Training (STCW95 Training)
Ft Lauderdale, USA
Tel: 001 9545251014
www.mptusa.com