Efficient Deck Hand (EDH)
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Course Prerequisites
- EDH-Candidates must be at least 17 years of age.
- EDH-Candidates must have successfully completed the basic training required by STCW Code A-VI/1
- EDH-Candidates must hold a Navigational Watch Rating Certificate; or a steering certificate; or proof of having obtained sufficient experience
- EDH-Candidates must meet the medical fitness requirements
- EDH-Candidates must have completed 12 months sea-service in the deck department; or hold a deck officer certificate of competency (fishing).
Course Name:
Efficient Deck Hand (EDH)
Course Price:
€595 (Prices are charged on a per person basis.)
Short Description:
5-day course. EDH is the qualifying examination for AB and deck rating certification.Course Type:
Short Courses (STCW’95 & non STCW’95)
Full Description:
- Shipboard organisation & operations – Shipboard organisation, parts of vessel, deck equipment, lookout reporting, helm orders, anchoring and mooring arrangements etc.
- Pilots ladders and means of access – Rigging a pilot ladder, means of access, boarding arrangements etc.
- Cargo work – Hatch covers, derricks & cranes, blocks & tackles, containers and securing arrangements etc.
- Safety – COSWOP, IMO safety signs, enclosed spaces, fire extinguishers, lifeboat & life raft launching etc.
- Seamanship – Rope types & construction, knots, bends & hitches, rigging a bosun's chair and stage, rope and wire splicing, whipping and seizing, parceling and servicing.
Items to bring:
When joining this course please bring all your relevant Certificates, Qualifications and Paperwork with you. Failure to do so could result in refusal for examination.
N.B.-On the commencement day of the course, please be in the Reception area of the NMCI by 8.30am.