Man Overboard and Recovery Teaching new rowers in your club the best methods of how to handle a Man Overboard and the steps they should take is a very important part of any rower’s training. (See Module Personal Safety – Sea Survival) See real man overboard (MOB) drills, including an exercise between the U.S. Coast Guard, Columbia River Bar Pilots, and a commercial carrier Go on location to the rough seas off the U.S. West Coast, travel to a remote stretch of Canadian coastline, and watch a Fast Rescue Boat exercise at the IDESS training center in The Philippines MEA | Man Overboard Training McCulley, Eastham & Associates (MEA) is a Woman-owned Safety consulting and training company headquartered in Greenup, Kentucky. Clubs often have different methods for doing this but British Rowing has developed and standardised this training to help clubs safely and effectively teach their rowers. The word “Retrieval” signifies the first action of a man overboard training operation. A well-trained Skipper and crew have a far greater chance of succeeding at recovering the person alive. We're CUrious about their man overboard safety training. We provide training, on site support and rescue services for Marine, Construction, Manufacturing, Chemical and Steel industries as well as federal and state government entities. At least once a week our laboratory employees are out on a boat weekly to take samples. Man Overboard (MOB) is an extremely serious and potentially fatal event that every CRV crew could experience at least once in their career.
At Emerald Marine Products we actually take these words very seriously and have developed a water rescue dummy specific to the needs of the training operation, sometimes referred to as “Oscar Training’.