STCW 2010 Courses
STCW 2010 amendment brought new mandatory STCW courses and 5 year refresher courses. These STCW courses depends on your Maritime ranks.
Since most Maritime Academy are required to issue STCW 2010 complied certificate after July 2013, we assume that its the transition from STCW 1995 to STCW 2010 which is causing confusion.
Please note that STCW 2010 categorized your certificates and documents as
- Certificate of competency (COC)
- Certificate of Proficiency
Certificate other than COC
- Documented evidence
Sea-time letter from Company/Captain, Drill participation etc.
Certain STCW Course needs to be refreshed every 5 years now.
Management / Operational / Support level
- PST (Personal Survival Technique)
- PSCRB (Proficiency in Survival craft / Rescue boat
- AFF (Advanced Fire fighting)
- FPFF (Basic Fire Fighting) [Not required if doing Refresher AFF]
- FRB (Fast Rescue boat)
1. SSO
NEW MANDATORY COURSE
Operational / Support level
1. SDSD (Seafarers with designated security duties), mandatory since 01 Jan 2014
OTHER COURSES
1. ECDIS (Operational & Management level - Deck)
2. Security awareness (onboard or ashore for trainees)
Most administration have published circulars detailing the transition from STCW 1995 to 2010. You can find DG Shipping (India) circular at up-gradation Deck & up-gradation Engineers. Please check your administration circular to know which STCW 2010 up-gradation Course you need to do.
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1 As a Master COC holder, which refresher courses will i be required to do?
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0 Myself Second engineer I currently have all required training and certificates as per STCW 95.
I sign off from my last vessel on august 2014 . After sign off. I have done MFA refresher course.
Tell me what minimum no. of training I need to do before I can join next ship. Please tell me only minimum required as I am in hurry situation for my NRI status.
If I am not wrong, I need to do security training. Kindly suggest the name of security course for me ... is it SSO or STSDSD ? - X
0 We received lots of query as to which STCW 2010 Courses one needs to do as per their Merchant Navy Rank. To answer the same we have improved our seatime calculator for STCW 2010. For better customized results we request you to complete your profile and check the seatime calculator. You can also read other benefits of completing your profile.
@Navin Gurung sir, theoretically you can avoid most of these courses till 31st Dec 2016.
However like we said before Refresher MFA Course and STSDSD Course are bare minimum which you require for Engine Department for time being.
SSO Refresher course is required for Management level in some companies and is considered an advanced course for STSDSD, we recommend you confirm from your shipping company in India. STSDSD course is mandatory for everyone with designated duties on-board a merchant ship. Please check SSO Course vs STSDSD Course for more details.
Also note, you will need to do Revalidation course for Engineer Officers later for Indian COC Revalidation. This course includes Refresher MFA. We highly recommend you to check seatime calculator to know which all courses are included in it ! Best of luck friend.
