Safety training for emergencies at sea

Evacuating the ship at sea is always a dangerous operation that involves enormous risks. By practicing evacuation and survival in advance, safety of life at sea can be improved.

Survival and evacuation training for the crew is often performed in a hurry, when the ship is in port. These exercises are one of the greatest work safety hazards for the crew. The superb facilities of Meriturva's modern Survival Training Centre in Lohja offer a better and safer way to gain important survival skills.

Meriturva's training pool is the biggest in Finland, and with its changeable weather conditions with wind and waves, it creates amazingly realistic and challenging conditions.

The main pool has a water temperature of 70°Fahrenheit (21°C) water, but also a cold water pool with 35°Fahrenheit (3°C) water is available for teaching how to protect oneself against hypothermia.

Meriturva's experienced crew is prepared to customize the course contents according to the needs of your group.

New evacuation devices and variable weather conditions

Safety is the key word in all Meriturva's operations. Our evacuation equipment represents the newest technology and we have a wide range of devices at your disposal from the smallest yacht raft to the biggest mass evacuation raft.

One side of the training pool building represents a side of a ship. It is used to learn correct and safe rescue practices using different forms of evacuation equipment. The evacuation heights vary from about three feet (1 m) to almost 30 feet (9 m). Meriturva's evacuation devices are similar to equipment used in ships.

The adjustable conditions in Meriturva's Survival Training Unit pool like strong winds, three-foot waves, rain or darkness add to the challenge and make the training situation utmost realistic.

Rare helicopter simulators and HUET-training

Meriturva Survival Training Unit has a unique indoors rescue helicopter simulator. Teams learn to rescue and winch people from the water or from the life rafts up to the helicopter simulator that circulates in the ceiling up in 30 feet.

Survival Training Unit in Lohja is the only place in Finland that offers Helicopter Underwater Escape Training (HUET), which is survival training from a ditched, sunken helicopter.

Meriturva's pool building is large enough to create a sense of reality during the training sessions. The facilities enable familiarization with a substantial range of newest survival and rescue equipment. Meriturva provides even valuable test information to suppliers.

Information about our equipment here.