GENERAL FRAMEWORK :
Maritime safety, in the broadest sense of the term, covers all human activities related to maritime spaces. Most of the activities for which ISMI provides training (fisheries policing, customs control, sea rescue, combating piracy, banditry and marine pollution) require the ability to operate a light craft. The fact is that initial training for the various corps required to take part in these activities does not always include nautical training.
COURSE OBJECTIVES :
This course is designed to provide the necessary training for administrative staff who need to operate a light craft (fisheries inspectors, survey teams, etc.), or to make the nautical calculations required to coordinate the use of such craft (MRCC, coastguard CO, marine CO, etc.).
The program covered will be that of the French coastal and deep-sea licenses, to which will be added seamanship and SAR radio procedures. It will therefore include navigation (chart reading, compass use, point by three bearings, direct and indirect dead reckoning, tide calculation), courses on the use and limits of GPS, helm and course rules, lights and markings, outboard engine operation and maintenance, radio procedures, essential seamanship and basic maneuvers (docking, locker, pilot ladder, man overboard).
TARGET AUDIENCE :
First and foremost, officers who actually have to pilot light craft, and secondly, operational center shift supervisors who have to make navigation calculations and are familiar with the conditions of use of light craft, irrespective of the ministry to which they are attached. There are no prerequisites for this course.
This course does not train watchmasters of ocean-going vessels, and does not award any STCW qualifications: the maneuvers are not the same, radar use is not covered, etc.
The level of responsibility required is: A or B manager, junior officer or non-commissioned officer.
The course is only open to French speakers; there will be no simultaneous translation facilities.
TEACHING METHOD :
Alternating theory and practice in small supervised groups.
REGISTRATION PROCEDURES
Candidates are proposed mainly through the AEM and ISMI networks.
ISMI is responsible for validating applications.