RYA VHF SHORT RANGE CERTIFICATE (GMDSS)
Entry Requirements
None
Description
This course is
designed to enable students to be able to operate any marine VHF radio
including those with class D GMDSS controllers.
Course Content
Distress
situations
1. Define a distress situation
2. Initiate a DSC Distress
Alert, with position and time input manually or automatically
3. Send a
Mayday call and message by voice
4. Respond appropriately to a DSC
Distress Alert and to a Mayday call and message, including relay of a
distress message
5. Know how to deploy an EPIRB and a SART.
Urgency
Situations
1. Define an urgency situation
2. Initiate a DSC urgency
alert
3. Send a Pan Pan call and message by voice
4. Respond
appropriately to an urgency message.
Safety Situations
1.
Identify a situation in which a safety message is appropriate
2. Input
a DSC safety alert
3. Send a safety message by voice
4. Receive
Maritime Safety Information by NAVTEX.
Routine Communication
1.
Initiate a DSC routine alert
2. Establish communication and exchange
messages with other stations by voice on appropriate channels
3. Test
the radiotelephone by means of an appropriate test call
4. Initiate a
DSC self test
5. Enter a DSC group and individual MMSI
6. Maintain
an appropriate listening watch on DSC and voice channels
7. Use the
International Phonetic Alphabet.
Where a course is aimed towards an
assessment/examination, it is expected that all students will enter for
the qualification.
Method of Assessment
Candidates will need
to demonstrate practical skills using simulators, and answer a number of
straightforward questions in a short written test.
Progression
Students
may wish to consider other RYA courses.
Materials
PLEASE NOTE THE £25 EXAM FEE IS PAYABLE DIRECTLY TO THE
TUTOR AT THE START OF THE COURSE . CHEQUES SHOULD BE MADE PAYABLE TO THE
RYA. YOU WILL NEED TO BRING A PASSPORT SIZE PHOTOGRAPH.
The
material fee of £12 will cover the RYA publication required to complete
the course. This will be provided by BCOT/your tutor and will be payable
on the first evening of your course.
