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Marine Basic Safety Training has 4 courses in it these are PST, FPFF, EFA, and PSSR. PST or Personal Survival Techniques means methods and systems used or employed to establish directions for taking appropriate survival actions, depending on the equipment and rations available, the use of them, and the preparation knowledge skills and integrity of the person. The IMO model course for PST is 1.19 that contains 9 modules. In this course discuss about the emergency situations, evacuation, survival crafts and rescue boat, personal life-saving appliances, survival at sea and emergency radio equipment. In emergency situations we should be observant in what happen into our surroundings. Also we should know the muster station. We can be able know our duties and responsible during emergency and the signals for these emergencies just by looking at the muster list. The general alarm has seven short blasts and one long blast on the ships whistle followed by public address of the master/captain. In survival crafts and rescue boats there are different types of lifeboats these are open, partially enclosed and totally enclosed. There are types of liferafts also these are enclosed inflatable liferaft and rigid liferaft. In Personal Life-Saving Appliances we should know the things that can help us during emergencies. Example of things that can help us are lifejackets, lifebuoy, lifebuoy with self-igniting light, immersion suit, thermal protective aid (TPA) and pyrotechnics. There are kinds of pyrotechnics the rocket parachute flare usually this kind of flare can last long for 40 seconds, Hand flare can last long for 60 seconds, buoyant orange smoke signal gives off smoke for 3 minutes it can use only for day time only.
FPFF or Fire Prevention and Firefighting this course discuss mainly about Fire on how to prevent and extinguish it. The IMO model course for FPFF is 1.20 that contains 3 modules. Fire tetrahedron is a graphical having a four equal triangular