OPITO Product 5917
Tropical FOET with Emergency Breathing System (EBS)
The Product is designed to give experienced offshore personnel the opportunity to practise and demonstrate emergency-response skills that cannot normally be rehearsed during routine offshore drills, with particular focus on correct EBS use, helicopter ditching and underwater escape, firefighting, self-rescue and emergency first aid.
8
3
EBS
4 Year
Guided learning hours
Mandatory units
Rebreather Pathways
Validity
Validity
4 years
Product Type
OPITO Approved Course
Trainers
OPITO Certified and years of experience
Eligibility
Valid eligible OPITO certificate
Entry Certificate Requirements
An eligible in-date OPITO certificate is required.
Three connected areas of further emergency competence.
The Product Standard identifies Product 5917 as open to learners holding a valid, in-date OPITO-approved certificate from eligible BOSIET, Tropical BOSIET, FOET and Tropical FOET pathways, including EBS and recognised CA-EBS variants listed by the Standard.
The training centre must be able to provide evidence that these prerequisite requirements were satisfied if requested by OPITO.
BOSIET
OPITO Approved Certificate
Tropical BOSIET
OPITO Approved Certificate
FOET
OPITO Approved Certificate
Tropical FOET
OPITO Approved Certificate
IS 5917 Right For you?
Further training for personnel already working offshore.
Product 5917 is intended for personnel working within the offshore oil and gas industry who require further offshore safety and emergency-response training and who will use an Emergency Breathing System during offshore helicopter travel.
This is not an entry-level offshore programme.
It is designed for personnel who already hold an eligible, in-date OPITO qualification and now need to refresh, practise and demonstrate critical emergency skills previously developed through BOSIET or FOET training.
Your existing certification must satisfy the Product 5917 entry requirements.
Training requirements can vary by operator, region and aviation arrangement.
Before booking, confirm your requirement with your employer, operator or mobilisation team.
For Personnel working Offshore
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Requires an eligible in-date OPITO qualification
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Designed to refresh, practice, and demonstrate skills
Three Mandatory Units
01 — OIS-444
Further Helicopter Safety and Escape — Tropical EBS
This is the core practical unit within Product 5917.
It refreshes: Helicopter emergency preparation, EBS knowledge, EBS operation, underwater, helicopter escape, push-out-window operation, capsize response and post-egress survival.
Learners must first demonstrate the required understanding before progressing into practical assessment. They are then observed completing the specified practical exercises and must successfully complete all required activities to achieve the unit.
The unit revisits the actions required when preparing for: helicopter ditching and emergency landing. This includes correct brace positions across the range of seating locations and restraint configurations encountered during offshore helicopter travel.
The objective is to reconnect emergency preparation with the physical escape actions that follow.
02 — OIS-75
Further Emergency First Aid
The first-aid unit is not intended to repeat the learner's original BOSIET programme.
OPITO specifically states that delivery should concentrate on enhancing learning gained during previous BOSIET or FOET training.
Learners refresh their understanding of:
First-aid arrangements, bleeding, burns, chemical contact, prioritising actions, scene safety, casualty assessment, airway and breathing, and recovery-position principles.
03 — OIS-74
Further Firefighting and Self Rescue
Learners practise: raising the alarm on discovering a fire and correctly operating portable fire extinguishers against Class A or Class B fires.
Each learner must practise using: Water or Foam and CO₂ portable extinguishers.
Training staff may also demonstrate small-bore hose reels and fire blankets where appropriate and where sufficient time is available.
Learners practise self-rescue from environments where visibility is:
Reduced
Movement and escape while normal visual references are limited.
Completely Obscured
Escape when visual information is effectively unavailable.
Group-Based
Small-group escape from completely obscured conditions, concluding with a muster exercise.
Why Tropical FOET with EBS?
Critical emergency skills need to be brought back into practice.
Offshore personnel may participate regularly in emergency drills, toolbox talks and safety exercises.
However, some emergency actions cannot realistically be repeated during normal offshore operations.
Personnel cannot routinely practice:
Moving through a completely obscured smoke environment.
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Breathing from EBS while orientation changes
Operating an emergency exit beneath the surface
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Being inverted underwater
Escaping from a sumerged Helicopter
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OPITO therefore defines the purpose of Tropical FOET with EBS as providing learners with the opportunity to practise and demonstrate emergency-response skills that are not possible to practise through routine offshore drills and exercises.
Refresh the
Knowledge
Rehearse the
Response
Demonstrate the
Competence
EBS Technical Focus
Understand the system before you depend on it.
Learners refresh four core EBS knowledge areas:
EBS Principles
How the Emergency Breathing System operates.
Duration
Understanding the available breathing duration and the limitations of the system.
Flotation Dynamics
Understanding how EBS interacts with flotation and body position.
Donning & Operation
Correctly fitting and operating the emergency breathing equipment.
Experience how body orientation affects the breathing system.
One of the technically distinctive elements of the EBS pathway is the pool familiarisation exercise. One of the technically distinctive elements of the EBS pathway is the pool familiarisation exercise.
This matters because underwater EBS operation is influenced not only by the equipment itself but also by how the learner is positioned relative to the water.
Breathing-system familiarity must continue even when orientation changes
01
Know the system and how it works.
Understand
02
Wear it correctly and Securely.
Don
03
Complete allpre-use checks.
Check
04
Deploy in the exercise.
Deploy
05
Breathe correctly and stay calm.
Breathe
06
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 5917 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
01
Partial
Submersion
Escape without EBS.
03
Partial Submersion + EBS + Push-Out Window
Integrate breathing-system operation with exit removal.
05
Capsize + EBS
Breathe correctly and stay calm.
02
Partial
Submersion + EBS
Deploy, operate and breathe from EBS during escape.
04
Capsize
Escape from the inverted helicopter.
06
Capsize + EBS + Push-Out Window
Escape safely and follow instructions.
These variations form part of the practical Product 5917 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
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
Move from underwater escape into survival craft.
Product 5917 includes both dry evacuation into an aviation liferaft and liferaft boarding from the water.
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
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.
The programme contains physically demanding and potentially stressful activities.
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.
Medical eligibility should be confirmed before booking.
Why Suraksha Marine
Further training should put critical skills back into action.
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EBS-Specific Training: Refresh EBS donning, integrity checking, deployment, breathing and practical pool use.
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HUET Simulation: Rehearse partial submersion, capsize, underwater orientation, exit operation and egress under controlled conditions.
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Progressive Practical Exercises: Move from equipment familiarisation into increasingly demanding EBS and HUET combinations.
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Structured Safety Supervision: In-water exercises are supported by defined instructor, diver, HUET operator and pool-safety roles.
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Integrated Emergency Response: Helicopter escape, survival, firefighting, self-rescue and immediate first aid are refreshed as connected emergency capabilities.
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EBS / CA-EBS Pathway Support: Suraksha Marine can help learners and corporate clients distinguish between Products 5917 and 5929 before booking.
Training Beyond Repetition
Further training should reactivate competence—not simply repeat content. A learner returning for Tropical FOET already has offshore emergency-training experience. The purpose of Product 5917 is therefore different from initial BOSIET.
Refresh. Rehearse. Demonstrate.
Returns to the simulator.
Returns to inversion.
Returns to underwater egress.
Returns to fire response.
Returns to obscured-visibility escape.
And demonstrates that these critical actions can still be performed.
Corporate workforce mobilisation?
Check related Courses:
01
Tropical BOSIET with CA-EBS
Initial tropical offshore safety training integrating CA-EBS use, HUET, sea survival, first aid, firefighting and self-rescue.
04
Tropical HUET with EBS
Focused tropical HUET training integrating rebreather EBS use, underwater helicopter escape, inversion response and survival actions.
02
Tropical BOSIET with EBS
Initial tropical offshore safety training built around the rebreather EBS pathway, helicopter escape and integrated emergency response
05
Tropical HUET with CA-EBS
Focused tropical helicopter emergency training combining CA-EBS competence, underwater escape, capsize response and post-egress survival
