OPITO Product 5295
Helicopter Underwater Escape Training with Compressed Air Emergency Breathing System (HUET CA-EBS)
Focused offshore helicopter emergency training for personnel who will use CA-EBS during offshore helicopter travel.
Product 5295 develops the knowledge, equipment familiarity and practical response required to prepare for a helicopter emergency, operate a Compressed Air Emergency Breathing System (CA-EBS), escape following ditching and complete the immediate survival actions that follow egress.
1 Day
1
CA-EBS
4 Year
7H 10M Guided learning hours
Mandatory units
Compressed Air Emergency Breathing Pathways
Validity
Validity
4 years
Product Type
OPITO Approved Course
Trainers
OPITO Certified and years of experience
Operational Environment
Valid eligible OPITO certificate
Training for the Moment Orientation Changes
01 — Prepare for Offshore Helicopter Travel
Understand the essential pre-flight, boarding and in-flight requirements, recognise helicopter emergency conditions and become familiar with the actions required before an emergency landing or ditching.
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02 — Know the CA-EBS Before You Need It
Develop familiarity with the Compressed Air Emergency Breathing System, including its components, pre-use checks, correct fitting, one-handed deployment, mouthpiece control and breathing through the demand valve.
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03 — Connect Breathing With Underwater Escape
Progress from equipment familiarisation into controlled helicopter escape exercises, combining exit location, restraint management, orientation and CA-EBS use during additional in-water training where the applicable medical and regulatory requirements are met.
04 — Continue the Response Beyond the Cabin
Practise the actions that follow egress, including aviation-lifejacket use, spray-visor deployment and boarding an aviation liferaft, connecting underwater escape with the immediate survival phase after ditching.
Helicopter Travel
Emergency preparation begins before the emergency.
The Product begins with normal helicopter operations because effective emergency response depends on understanding the aircraft environment before anything goes wrong.
Learners develop awareness of: pre-flight briefings, arrival procedures, correct dress, documentation, prohibited articles, check-in, safe boarding, pre-flight information, in-flight requirements and safe disembarkation.
Preparing for Ditching: Learners understand the actions required before a helicopter ditching or emergency landing, including brace positions appropriate to different seating locations and harness configurations.
Aircraft Flotation and Escape Routes
A helicopter ditching does not produce one predictable cabin condition. The aircraft may remain upright, become partially submerged or overturn.
Learners therefore develop awareness of:
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aircraft flotation characteristics
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emergency landing escape routes
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ditching escape routes
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nominated exits
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push-out windows
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underwater evacuation
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capsize evacuation
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independent action where appropriate
LOCATE
Identify the nominated exit.
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Release
Release the restraint at the appropriate stage.
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Evacuate
Move through the nominated exit or push-out window during on-water, underwater or capsized conditions.
Aviation Transit Suit Familiarisation
Know the equipment before boarding the aircraft.
The Product requires learners to understand that different suit types may be used and that personnel should familiarise themselves with the specific aviation transit suit they are expected to use before boarding their operational helicopter.
Training therefore develops familiarity with the interaction between: aviation transit suit, aviation lifejacket, and CA-EBS as an integrated helicopter survival arrangement.
Is 5295 Right For You?
Personnel travelling offshore by helicopter with CA-EBS.
Product 5295 is intended for personnel who are new to, or returning to, the offshore energy industry and who will be supplied with a Compressed Air Emergency Breathing System during offshore helicopter travel.
It is a focused helicopter emergency-response Product rather than a complete initial offshore-safety programme.
The training concentrates on the specific knowledge and actions required:
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before helicopter travel
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during normal flight
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when a helicopter emergency develops
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during preparation for ditching
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during underwater escape
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while operating CA-EBS
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immediately following egress
Training requirements can vary by operator, region and aviation arrangement.
Before booking, confirm your requirement with your employer, operator or mobilisation team.
Prepare for the flight
Control the escape
Survive the water
One Mandatory Unit
What Does Product 5295 Develop?
The Product prepares learners to use representative helicopter safety equipment and follow the procedures required during a helicopter emergency.
Its primary objective is for learners to demonstrate, within a simulated environment, that they can use the required safety equipment and follow the procedures for preparing for and responding to helicopter emergencies, with particular emphasis on escape following ditching.
The learning pathway connects:
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Helicopter travel
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Aviation survival equipment
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CA-EBS
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Emergency landing preparation
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Dry evacuation
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Partial submersion
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Push-out-window operation
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Capsize escape
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Underwater CA-EBS deployment
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Underwater egress
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Aviation-liferaft survival
The mandatory unit is organised around six outcomes:
01 — Helicopter Travel
02 — Helicopter Emergencies
03 — Use of CA-EBS — Knowledge
04 — Use of CA-EBS — Practical Performance
05 — Practical Helicopter Escape Techniques
06 — Additional CA-EBS Training — In Water
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OIS-78
6 H 40 M
Helicopter Safety and Escape CA-EBS
Prepare for offshore helicopter travel and develop practical competence for emergency evacuation and underwater escape using CA-EBS breathing.
OIS-78 combines the theoretical understanding and practical actions required for routine offshore helicopter travel, emergency preparation, compressed-air emergency breathing and underwater escape.
Learners begin with pre-flight and in-flight requirements before developing familiarity with aviation transit suits, lifejackets, emergency exits, aircraft flotation, brace positions, CA-EBS and aviation liferafts.
Training then progresses through equipment checks, dry CA-EBS deployment, emergency landing preparation, dry helicopter evacuation, partial-submersion HUET exercises, capsized escape and additional in-water CA-EBS training where the applicable medical, regulatory and centre requirements are satisfied.
Why Tropical HUET with CA-EBS?
Because helicopter travel creates its own emergency-response sequence.
Travelling offshore involves a combination of hazards that many personnel may not encounter in conventional workplaces.
Personnel may need to: maintain restraint, locate an exit, operate a push-out window, escape from a submerged cabin, respond after inversion, use survival equipment and transition from egress into sea survival.
Helicopter emergency response and survival in one focused pathway.
Learners are required to demonstrate that they can:
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Use Safety Equipment
Apply the required helicopter emergency and aviation survival equipment correctly.
Prepare for Helicopter Emergencies
Follow the appropriate procedures before and during emergency landing or ditching.
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Escape Following Ditching
Perform practical underwater helicopter escape in a simulated environment.
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Use CA-EBS
Understand, check, don, deploy and breathe from Compressed Air Emergency Breathing System equipment.
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Demonstrate Sea Survival
Apply recognised survival techniques after entering or escaping into the water.
System
Understanding
Operating
Duration
Flotation
Dynamics
Integrated
Egress
CA-EBS Technical Focus
Understand the system before you depend on it.
Product 5295 develops specific knowledge of:
Equipment Components
Cylinder, demand valve, mouthpiece, hose, pressure indicator and other applicable operating controls.
Equipment Condition
How to conduct pre-use checks and confirm correct operating status.
Donning
How to correctly fit the aviation lifejacket and CA-EBS system.
Deployment
How to deploy the mouthpiece and nose clip using one hand.
Breathing
How to establish an effective mouthpiece seal and breathe through the demand valve.
Recovery
How to clear water and recover from a displaced mouthpiece.
Limitations
Understanding risks such as loss of air, improper purging, running out of air and hazards associated with compressed-air breathing.
The learner then progresses into practical use.
CA-EBS Shallow-Water Familiarisation
Build breathing-system competence progressively.
The Product includes dedicated CA-EBS exercises in shallow water at a maximum depth of 0.7 metres measured at the chest.
Learners practice: deployment above the water, deployment below the surface, clearing the mouthpiece by exhalation, using the purge function, deployment using opposite hands, breathing underwater vertically and moving underwater while breathing from CA-EBS.
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Know the system and how it works.
Understand
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Wear it correctly and Securely.
Don
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Complete allpre-use checks.
Check
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Deploy in the exercise.
Deploy
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Breathe correctly and stay calm.
Breathe
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Escape safely and follow instructions.
Escape
Suraksha Marine HUET Simulator
Train the escape in a controlled helicopter environment.
At Suraksha Marine, HUET practical training is delivered using a purpose-built helicopter underwater escape simulator designed to support controlled submersion, inversion and emergency egress exercises.
Product 5295 requires HUET systems to include representative helicopter seating and restraints, push-out windows, controlled lowering, at least 180° rotation, emergency stopping capability and rapid retrieval.
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6 Training Positions
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4 Passengers +
2 Cockpit Positions
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Multiple Push-Out Emergency Windows
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Representative Restraint Systems
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Controlled 180° Inversion
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Dedicated Lowering
& Recovery System
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Controlled Environment
Safe, repeateble conditions for effective learning.
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Progressive Escape Training
Build skills and confidence through structure scenarios
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Operational Realism
Realistic systems and motions that mirror field conditions
What HUET is Really Training
FOUR SKILLS.
One Outcome.
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Reference
Maintain a physical point of orientation
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Orientation
Recognise body and cabin position after movement
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Release
Release restraint at the appropriate stage
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Egress
Locate and pass through the nominated exit
These variations form part of the practical Product 5295 HUET sequence.
HUET Escape Progression
Increase the challenge one element at a time.
HUET training increases in complexity as learners develop confidence and competence.
The minimum HUET team includes:
Lead Instructor
Crane/Hoist Operator or Dive Supervisor
OPITO HUET Divers
Pool Safety Person
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Dry Evacuation to Aviation Liferaft
Evacuate from a helicopter trainer ditched on water through the nominated exit.
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Capsize
Escape through an underwater window opening from a capsized helicopter.
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Partial Submersion
Escape through an underwater window opening from a partially submerged helicopter without operating a push-out window.
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Post-Egress
Survival
Inflate the aviation lifejacket, deploy the spray visor and board the aviation liferaft from the water.
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Partial Submersion + Push-Out Window
Escape from a partially submerged helicopter through an underwater window opening after operating the push-out window.
Push-Out Window Competence
Operate the exit before the most complex scenario.
An important assessment detail within the Product Standard is that although push-out windows are fitted for the final capsize exercise, the learner's ability to push out the window is assessed during the partial-submersion exercise.
This is a good example of progressive competence development:
Aviation Liferaft
Helicopter emergency knowledge: learners cover aviation liferaft stowage, operation, entry and initial actions after boarding.
Product 5295 includes dry evacuation from a simulated ditched helicopter into an aviation liferaft, as well as liferaft boarding from the water following HUET egress.
Learners revisit initial liferaft actions including:
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Secure mooring lines
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Deploying the sea anchor
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Raising the canopy
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Raft maintenance
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Lookout Arrangements
Radio-beacon
activation
First-aid equipment awareness
Swimming Ability
You do not need to hide your swimming ability.
These groups must be clearly
identified during pool exercises.
The standard recognises: swimmers, weak swimmers and designated non-swimmers.
A maximum of two designated non-swimmer learners may participate in any one HUET pool exercise.
Inform Suraksha Marine of your swimming ability before practical training.
Shoulder Breadth Measurement
Where required locally, learners should hold a valid Shoulder Breadth Measurement before offshore helicopter travel.
Shoulder Breadth Measurement may be required depending on the applicable offshore aviation regime. Confirm your mobilisation requirement before booking.
Medical Requirements
Be fit for the practical demands of training.
Product 5194 contains activities that may be physically demanding and potentially stressful.
Learners must satisfy an acceptable
medical-entry route, which may include:
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valid offshore medical;
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employer-approved equivalent;
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fitness-to-work-at-sea certificate;
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medical fitness for diving at work;
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or appropriate screening through the OPITO-approved centre.
Additional CA-EBS requirement
Product 5194 requires additional medical fitness for shallow-water CA-EBS exercises. Learners must meet the applicable medical requirements and provide the required declaration; anyone deemed medically unfit must not participate.
Medical eligibility should be confirmed before booking.
Why Suraksha Marine
Train the complete helicopter emergency sequence.
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Purpose-Built HUET Simulation: Practise partial submersion, inversion and underwater egress in a controlled helicopter-training environment.
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CA-EBS-Specific Training: Develop competence from pre-use checks and deployment into controlled underwater breathing.
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Progressive Escape Training: Build from dry evacuation into underwater exit operation and capsize.
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Integrated Sea Survival: Continue beyond egress into liferafts, TEMPSC, in-water survival and rescue.
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Structured Safety Support: Practical exercises are supported by dedicated instructor, HUET-diver, operator and pool-safety resources.
Representative equipment. Controlled conditions. Defined outcomes.
Develop practical offshore helicopter emergency competence through CA-EBS familiarisation, controlled underwater escape progression, push-out-window HUET, additional compressed-air breathing exercises and post-egress survival actions.
Prepare. Breathe. Orient. Escape.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
