Course & Cost

Cost

$1960, 14 days
$295, 1 day for Marine Radio

A discount may apply for recent credit transfers and/or Recognition of Prior Learning.

Course Information Booklet

All you need to know about this course can be found in our Coxswain Course Information Booklet.

Training Units

TDM20307 Certificate II in Transport and Distribution (Coastal Maritime Operations – Coxswain) qualification course. Sixteen (16) training units are required for the completion of the TDM20307 qualification. The first three (3) units are delivered and assessed at the TDM10107 Certificate I General Purpose Hand course. A further thirteen (13) units are delivered over fifteen (15) days.

Course Content

15 days - Start 8.30am to 5.00pm daily

• Complete SEA SCHOOL enrolment, attendance, provide identification and current 'Apply First Aid' statement of attainment or similar (if already a holder).
• Introduction to SEA SCHOOL, fellow participants, safety orientation, distribution of Handbooks, learning outcomes and assessment plan

• Understand how your engines work.
• Piston assemblies, crankshafts and cooling systems.
• Fuel systems, heat exchangers, strainers.
• Diesels, outboards, jet drives, turbo and super chargers.
• Engine troubleshooting, identifying defects and faults
• Terminology and function of a large range of engine and vessel parts
• Marine extra low and low voltage electrical systems, batteries and shore power.
• Prepare an engine for sea, start up and shut down
• Practical engineering on board vessel/s
• Daily tasks and Procedures, Daily Reviews and Questions and Answers
• Programmed Assessments

• Know the classes of fire and extinguishing agents to respond to a fire or other emergencies.
• Fixed fire suppression systems, SCBA self contained breathing apparatus.
• How to operate portable fire fighting equipment. Water, CO2, Dry Chemical Powder, Foam and Fire Blanket.
• Fire Practical (at nearby location or aboard a commercial vessel)
• Programmed Assessments

• AMSA Code of Safe Working Practices
• Observe and Respond to safety and emergency operations
• Identify and observe hazards, emergency alarms, and ways to control damage on board.
• Workplace practices aboard a commercial vessel
• Plan and prepare refuelling and fuel transfer operations for outboard and diesel engines.
• Apply relevant local environmental legislative requirements.
• Prevent oil, fuel, bilge and sullage pollution and respond to pollution incidents.
• Oil containment unit; and wharf sullage for waste or water.
• Daily tasks and procedures
• Programmed assessments

• Commencement of trainer led Radio Handbook overview.
• Theory, presentation, review and government test.
• Regulations and procedures for vessels and stations.
• VHF, MF/HF and Digital selective calling (DSC) facilities used in radio communication.
• Maintain and fault-find radio equipment, batteries.
• Access search and rescue radio facilities.
• Emergency position indicating radio beacons (EPIRBs) and search and rescue transmitters (SARTs).
• Office of Maritime Communication Multiple Choice Assessment. Documentation completed.

Student rest and study – 2 days, however only if the participant is NOT enrolled in Cert II MED 3 and/or Master Class 5

• Hull integrity, monitor condition and seaworthiness of a vessel.
• Secure a small vessel for sea.
• Follow safety and hazard control procedures.
• Identify and explain the structural components and material of a small vessel.
• Rectify problems with the condition of a vessel.
• Operate fuel, fresh and seawater, bilge, effluent and fire pumping and valve systems installed in a vessel.
• Maintain systems, troubleshooting
• Maintain running logs, fuel calculations, time, distance, speed
• Basic stability, slack tanks

• Domestic regulations, survey, deficiencies, Maritime, Safety Management Systems.
• Collision regulations, IALA buoyage, give way, distance off, speed.
• Navigation lights, sounds and day shapes, assessment.
• Visual navigation, the compass: variation, deviation, putting it all together.
• To gain a corrected true bearing, navigation exercises and getting the maths right.
• Depth, tidal heights, tables and calculations, tidal currents, reading currents on charts.
• Planning a course to steer, position, the safety zone, steering a bearing, danger bearing.
• Planning a voyage, ship management, watchkeeping and log keeping.
• Weather reports, wind and severe weather.
• Voyage planning, navigate an in-shore voyage, partially smooth to off shore voyages, Chartwork and the admiralty symbols
• Vessel logs, fuel, oil, food, water, clothing, Safety Management System, communications
• Programmed Assessments

• Spring lines, line handling, knots include clove hitch, bow line, sheepshank, sheet bend, rolling hitch and splicing.
• Use and maintain ropes, wires and chains.
• Anchor equipment, winches and windlasses.

• Be a leader and be responsible for the vessel operations and crew management.
• Manoeuvre theory, handling waves in sheltered and off shore waters.
• Responsibilities when towing, moving cargo, rafting up and lines to use.
• Operate and maintain steering gear arrangements, various and emergency.
• Programmed Assessments

Note: Day 14 and 15 following are also timetabled Master Class 5 days for stability and weather. Therefore these 2 days must be attended the following month or months for those also enrolled in Master Class 5

• The correct and proper use of equipment; Vessel preparations, seaworthiness, fire extinguishers, safety equipment, navigation lights; Start up and shut down procedures
• Plan and navigate several courses around Port Jackson, Parramatta River. Take into account all navigation channels, shipping, ferry movements and recreational craft
• Learn how to plot and log bearings
• Leadership skills in vessel operations and management, respond to crew and passenger safety.
• Instigate a crew drill and respond to an emergency (i.e. grounding, abandon ship, man overboard, collision).
• Get behind the wheel for slow manoeuvering, how the gears work, lags and throttle response, situation awareness, keeping a sharp lookout.
• Respond to changes in sea conditions and alter your course, the Williamsons turn.
• Maintain a heading within 2 degrees of the lubber line; Head into wind, manoeuvre up to a mooring buoy, take into account communications, wind and current; Wave handling, broaching, turning, sea conditions.
• Take the weight off the vessel when docking.
• Anchoring and anchor watch.
• Close quarter's situations, ColRegs, making your intentions clear with positive steering and square corners.
• Travel the shipping lanes and put into practice the domestic and international regulations, speed, distance off, buoys, special marks and safe water.
• Fuel consumption, steaming time remaining, engine watch
• Programmed Assessments

• Practical de-brief Crew meeting and discussion, finalisation of assessments from practical day
• Theory training not yet completed
• Course and unit reviews and feedback
• Programmed Assessments
• Group intensive Q&A
• Complete AQTF Learner or Employer Questionnaire and 'Your Opinion Counts' feedback form