New to sea
Learn the equipment before your first ship. Turn a lifeboat, a liferaft or a CO2 system around in 3D and see how each part works.
Al Safwan Academy · by the service engineers of Al Safwan Marine
Ship safety equipment, learned properly. Short lessons on lifeboats, fire-fighting, gas detection and lifting gear, written by the engineers who inspect them on board.
Try a lesson in 3D: Why enclosed spaces kill: the numbers behind the rules
- Courses
- 14
- Short lessons
- 115
- Lessons with a 3D simulator
- 120
- Passwords to remember
- 0
Who it's for
For everyone who keeps a ship's safety gear ready.
Serving crew
Refresh before a drill, a survey or a port state inspection, or before you join a ship with different equipment. Take only the course you need.
Officers and superintendents
Check what the rules ask in minutes, with SOLAS, the LSA and FSS Codes and IMO circulars cited in every lesson. Send crew the lesson that fits a finding.
Ship managers and companies
The same courses for every new joiner, refreshers between contracts, equipment-specific training for your fleet, and a Course completed card anyone can verify.
Training for companiesStart here
Good first courses
All 14 courses
3D
Lifeboats and liferaftsStart here
Lifeboat safety and the rules
Why lifeboats hurt people, which rules keep crews safe, and what to check, log and leave to specialists.
8 lessons1 h 30 minIntroductory
3D
Fire safety
Portable fire-fighting equipment and breathing apparatus
Check, service and test extinguishers, breathing sets and fire hoses the way surveyors expect.
7 lessons1 h 40 minIntroductory
3D
Gas detection and enclosed spaces
Gas detection, enclosed spaces and calibration
Use and calibrate gas meters, and run an enclosed space entry that brings everyone back out.
6 lessons1 h 30 minIntroductory
3D
Marine hydraulics
Marine hydraulics: from Pascal's law to a crane circuit
Twenty hands-on lessons on ship hydraulics, from the first push of a jack to crane circuits and steering gear.
20 lessons2 h 16 minIntroductory
3D
Deck, lifting and hull
Lifting appliances, deck machinery and access equipment
Cranes, wire rope, mooring gear, gangways and pilot ladders: the tests and records that keep them safe.
10 lessons2 h 25 minPractical
3D
Surveys, PSC and compliance
Surveys, audits and port state control
How surveys, safety and labour audits and port state inspections work, and how a ship gets ready for them.
7 lessons1 h 45 minPractical
Topics
Pick the equipment you work with.
How it works
Ten minutes a lesson. On any phone.
No password. Lesson 1 of every course is open now. Sign in with Google, Facebook or your email to open the rest.
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Pick a course
14 courses in 7 topics. Start with lesson 1, no account needed.
- 02
Learn in short lessons
About 10 to 15 minutes each, with 3D models, labs and a plain-words primer.
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Get your card
Finish the lessons and the quiz. Anyone can scan its QR code to check it.
Written by the engineers who inspect it
Every lesson comes from work done on board, and cites the rule behind it.
The Al Safwan Marine group's service engineers examine lifeboats, liferafts, fire systems and lifting gear on ships every week. This is familiarisation and refresher training, not an STCW course. Finish one and you get a Course completed card that anyone can verify by its QR code.
Verify a completionFor ship managers
Train a whole crew the same way. Tell us what your crews need.
Onboarding for new joiners, refreshers between contracts and equipment courses for your fleet.
- The same courses for every new joiner
- Refreshers between contracts
- Equipment courses for your fleet, on request
- A Course completed card anyone can verify with a QR code
Questions
All questions and answersIs it free?
Every course is free during our launch period, for a limited time. After it, courses will be paid. If you join during the launch, you keep every course you complete and you can finish, free, any course you started. We will email you a month before the launch period ends.
What do I get when I finish?
When you finish every lesson (and the final quiz, where there is one) you get a Course completed card with your name, to share on LinkedIn, WhatsApp and elsewhere. Its QR code lets anyone verify it on our website.
Is this STCW approved?
No. It is familiarisation and refresher training, not an STCW, flag or maker's course. The card's page says so.
Does it work on my phone or a slow connection?
Yes. The pages are light. 3D models only download when you open them.
Can my company track crew progress?
Not yet. It is coming. Register your interest and we will tell you first.