Course Details
Course Duration | 1 Day |
Times | 09.00 - 17.00 With working lunch |
Course Handbook | A comprehensive First Aid publication is issued to support the course |
Assessment | Continuous assessment througout the course |
Certification | The RYA First Aid Certificate is isued at the end of the course |
Clothing | Please wear clothing suitable for participating in the First Aid practicals & scenarios in/out doors |
Refreshment | We are providing tea and coffee that you can make yourself. |
Lunch | Bring your own lunch |
Parking | Is free |
Course Fee 1:1 | Call for info |
Your Tutor
This 1:1 RYA First Aid Course in Southampton is taught by Steve Gravells of Tec Rec Coaching, Steve has taught Mountain First Aid and First Aid at Sea courses for over 30 years and was a NHS First Responder based in the New Forest. The course will be highly interactive with practicals and theory elements taught so that you remember them!
First hand experience of coming across accidents and incidents whilst personally skippering Yachts, Mountain climbing, Powerboating, Kayaking rivers/sea, Dinghy Sailing, and Windsurfing is brought to the course.

First Aid Training equipment
We will be using some of the latest equipment availabe for the RYA First Aid course in Southampton
Although the RYA First Aid Course in Southampton is only one day, we will make it as interesting and practical as posssible, for Resuscitation practice you will be working with the latest Adult, Child, and Baby manikins.
We also have the latest available manikins for instructing dealing with a Choking casualty
We bring you up to speed with how the latest Automated External Defribrillators work
"Best course of the numerous courses I have attended as a Commercial Skipper"
Andrew Mitchell. RYA First Aid Course

Course information
The RYA First Aid one day course covers all the usual first aid subjects, from a being on the water perspective.
The course is aimed at anyone who is ashore or afloat, whether on inland waters, rivers, estuaries on cross channel passages, or heading into the hills!
KAYAKING, YACHTING, DINGHY SAILING, FISHING, POWERBOATING, WINDSURFING, DIVING, CYCLING, PWC, HILL/MOUNTAIN WALKING.
This one-day course is designed to provide a working knowledge of first aid for people, especially in remote locations.
In a medical emergency a little first aid knowledge and immediate action can save lives.
It fulfils the requirements for:-
Water sports Instructors, Yacht Skippers ( RYA, BCU )
Professional skippers of small craft ( Commercial Endorsement ) working within 60 miles of a safe haven, including Boatmasters.
The Senior First Aid certificate needed by offshore racers subject to ISAF's regulations on first aid training (OSR 4.08.4)
Also covers the use of VHF calls MayDay and PanPan. VHF Course info.
The course is recommended by the MCA and HSE.
"Fabulous course - many thanks!!" Paul Pritchard, Principal, West Coast Ribs.
RYA First Aid Course
1:1 Training course fee: Call for info.
Please contact Tec Rec Coaching by phone Tel 07970 891377 or email, to discuss/arrange a suitable date