Efficient Deck Hand (EDH) Certificate

What is special about this course?

The UK shipping industry relies on recruiting motivated young people to operate a range of ships that trade on a world wide basis. The purpose of this new marine training programme is to prepare young people for a career at sea, at rating level, by providing them with the necessary basic skills and qualifications required by ship operators in the UK.

Entry requirements

Candidates must -

• Be at least 17 years of age.
• Have successfully completed the basic training required by STCW Code A-VI/1
• Hold a Navigational Watch Rating Certificate or a steering certificate; or proof of having obtained sufficient experience
• Meet the medical fitness requirements and have completed 12 months sea service in the deck department,
• or hold a deck officer certificate of competency (Fishing)Sea-service performed in a deck capacity on sea-going fishing vessels of more than 16.5 m in registered length will be counted in full but at least 6 months sea-service on merchant ships will be required for certification as an AB seaman
• Candidates with other types of sea service or training may be considered by the Maritime Coastguard Agency for entry to the examination on an individual basis.

Course Syllabus and examination -

• Meaning of common nautical terms
• Navigational watch keeping duties
• Lifesaving appliances and fire fighting appliances.

Practical work as follows -

• Knots, bends and hitches
• Common splices
• Parcel and serve a splice
• Whipping and seizings
• Care, use and storage of ropes and wires
• Stoppers for ropes and wires
• Slinging of stages and bosun’s chair
• Rigging of pilot ladders, gangways and accommodation ladders
• Hydrostatic Release Unit - HRU
• Rigging a derrick
• Securing the deck for severe weather
• Hatches and watertight doors
• Anchor cables
• Code of Safe Working Practice for Merchant Seamen (COSWP) 1998.

Fees

£110