Alaska Marine Safety

Education Association

Outdoor Survival Youth Educators Workshops

Please see AMSEA's Course Calendar for all upcoming AMSEA courses, including Outdoor Survival Youth Educators Workshops.

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About the Workshops:

These workshops are designed for schoolteachers and others who work with children. They provide training in cold water safety and survival skills, outdoor preparedness, and help with effectively integrating AMSEA's K-12 curriculum Surviving Outdoor Adventures into classroom, swimming pool, open water, and other settings. The workshop length is flexible, from a few hours to four days. Academic 500-level credits are available through the University of Alaska, Southeast. Cost of the workshops varies with length and location.

Expanded, week-long workshops qualify participants to apply to become a U. S. Coast Guard accepted instructor for commercial fishermen, allowing high school teachers to offer the drill conductor course as a vocational education class.

Topics covered in Outdoor Survival Youth Educators Workshops include:

Hypothermia
Includes physiology, prevention, recognition and Alaska's most current emergency medical treatment guidelines.

Preparation for Boat and Land Trips
Covers the "Seven Steps to Survival" (a priority listing of steps to take during an emergency), weather, the role of preparation in dealing with outdoor activities, float/trip plans, dressing, signals, shelters and survival kits.

PFDs and Cold Water Survival
Covers PFDs, including immersion suits, exploring advantages and disadvantages of each type, maintenance and storage. Also covers cold water survival skills, rescue techniques, the latest on cold water near drowning and an overview of factors that increase survival time in cold water. Students try a variety of PFDs and skills in the pool.

Navigation
Covers the basics of using compasses, charts and topographic maps.

Land Survival
Includes survival shelters, signaling for help, and the "Seven Steps to Survival" as they apply to shore, river bank or other remote land-based survival situations. Practice giving maydays, building debris shelters, and basic outdoor signals is included.

Ongoing post-workshop support for Outdoor Survival Youth Educators Workshop participants includes:

• Access to AMSEA's extensive inventory of training equipment like PFDs, immersion suits, inflatable boats and liferafts, radios, EPIRBs, compasses and much more
• Access to AMSEA's video collection and lending library
• Advice and help from AMSEA's experienced teaching staff, with co-teaching available when funding allows

Please see AMSEA's Course Calendar for all upcoming AMSEA courses, including Outdoor Survival Youth Educators Workshops.