MCA Approved Engine Courses Next Course Dates - Part one -13 - 17 May, part two -20 - 24 May MCA Small Ships Navigation & Radar Course Monday 24th June to Friday 28th June 2024. Call to book on 01326 211311. Β£975 STCW Basic Safety Training Course 22nd - 26th April. Call today to book your place on 01326 211311. STCW MARINE TRAINING FIRST CLASS SAFETY TRAINING AEC 1 & 2 APPOVED ENGINE COURSES THE MCA ENGINEERING QUALIFICATION IN THE HEART OF FALMOUTH LEARN IN AN INSPIRATIONAL SETTING SKIPPER DEVELOPMENT TRAINING Professional Skipper Training

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MCA Small Ships Navigation and Radar – March 2024

Great facility and hugely useful to local marine business. Thank you!

Tom

STCW Personal Safety and Social Responsibilities – March 2024

Many thanks for all your help. Also the tea and biscuits were wonderful!

Jasmin

STCW Fire Prevention and Fire Fighting – February 2024

Excellent course, really well delivered by experienced instructors.

Paul

STCW Fire Prevention and Fire Fighting – February 2024

Brilliant content and particularly the familiarisation to BA sets before the exercise was very useful.

Madalein

STCW Elementary First Aid – February 2024

Really engaging course and very informative.

Bailey

MCA Approved Engine Course Part 1 – January 2024

An overall great experience, very amazing and knowledgeable instructors.

John

MCA Efficient Deck Hand (EDH) – February 2024

A very professional and thorough course. Well organised facilities, equipment and course content. Course criteria challenging yet enjoyable. Jason was very professional and knowledgeable - A* instructor - a top bloke!

Ben

STCW Update Fire Prevention and Fire Fighting – February 2024

Again, exceptional level of teaching, thorough and detailed approach with a great delivery.

Charlie

STCW – Personal Survival Techniques – December 2023

Fantastic instruction. Doing the practical in the sea was very useful/instructive in my view.

Hedrek

STCW Fire Prevention and Fire Fighting – December 2023

Excellent teachers, very informative and regardless of trade, usefull skills too. Great course!

STCW Personal Survival Techniques – December 2023

Nick and Grant's knowledge, passion and delivery of the course was 5 star, I will certainly recommend the course and FTS to friends.

Rochelle

STCW Update – Fire Prevention & Fire Fighting – December 2023

Both instructors were great with amazing knowledge, I learnt a lot of new things and I would highly recommend. Thank you!

Charlotte

MCA Approved Engine Course part 1 – December 2023

Excellent instruction and facilities. Thank you!

Owen

STCW Advanced Fire Fighting – December 2023

Great course and very well run with knowledgeable instructors.

Tobias

The requirements of the leisure and commercial maritime industries are growing significantly and with that growth, there are genuine needs for quality training. Our group of businesses offer that β€œQuality in Training” through our experienced trainers and instructors, who are from and still work in operational backgrounds. With our well-equipped facilities that are available to us, we can offer our training to the highest standard. We have the only fully equipped custom made marine fire training facility in Cornwall and can offer all ranges of fire safety training for either land or water based companies or individuals.

We are a long-established friendly family run group of businesses with years of experience in all areas we train in, offering high quality leisure and professional services in sailing, powerboating/motorboating, offshore safety, workplace health & safety training as well as boat chartering. Being situated within the historical maritime town of Falmouth, one of the largest and most beautiful natural working harbours in the world, the local waters of the Fal Estuary provide one of the most versatile and picturesque locations for watersports in Europe.

Falmouth Training Solutions (FTS), Falmouth Powerboat School (FPS), Falmouth School of Sailing (FSOS), Safety Training Units (STU) and Falmouth Boat Charters (FBC) all run alongside each other as sister companies. FSOS and FPS are well established companies with a vast and respected reputation throughout the maritime industry in Falmouth. FPS is a much-respected deliverer of powerboating and motorboat courses, running RYA training through the entire syllabus right up to commercial levels. Falmouth School of Sailing is also a recognised training centre with the Royal Yachting Association (RYA) offering all of the sail cruising, theory and specialist short training courses from start yachting to yachtmaster level.

FTS is at the forefront of training in the Southwest and is the only provider in Cornwall who can offer all the MCA STCW elements required for the complete Basic and Advanced STCW courses all delivered at our purpose built fire training facility or in the local waters of Falmouth. We are the training centre of choice for a lot of companies for a large range of other MCA courses.

The STCW qualification is the minimum employment requirement for any seafarer working within a commercial role and this course has five elements. We also offer the advanced fire training, the relevant update training courses and other high level MCA courses required for training officers.

 

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