DEFSUR011 — Survive at sea
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What an assessment for DEFSUR011 must cover
27 assessable components: 2 elements (13 performance criteria), 10 performance evidence and 4 knowledge evidence requirements. An audit-defensible tool maps every question and task back to these — that mapping is the coverage matrix Auditori generates alongside the assessment.
Elements & performance criteria
1 Survive in the water
- 1.1Use surface and underwater swimming techniques to escape from dangerous situations.
- 1.2Enter water from a height and then surface.
- 1.3Assume heat-retaining positions in the water as an individual and in a group environment.
- 1.4Use improvised flotation devices to supplement buoyancy.
- 1.5Fit personal flotation device (PFD) and maintain buoyancy through manual techniques.
2 Operate and maintain survival flotation craft and its resources
- 2.1Deploy, inflate, right (upon inversion) and board survival flotation craft (multi-person or single-person life raft).
- 2.2Escape from inside the survival flotation craft after inversion.
- 2.3Rig survival flotation craft for protection from the elements and optimisation (or minimisation) of movement.
- 2.4Inspect and maintain survival flotation craft throughout the survival period.
- 2.5Manage survival resources.
- 2.6Deploy and operate water and food procurement devices.
- 2.7Operate signal equipment from the survival flotation craft.
- 2.8Interpret and respond to recognition and response signals from search aircraft.
Performance evidence
- fitting personal floatation devices
- using duck dive technique
- swimming 30 metres in clothing
- treading water for a minimum of five minutes in clothing
- adopting the HELP for at least ten minutes
- rigging and using two different improvised flotation devices for at least five minutes each
- surviving at sea over three hours using a multi-person raft by: • rigging the drogue • rigging the canopy • rigging water procurement devices including solar stills and reverse osmosis machines, and producing at least 300 millilitre of water • bailing • inspecting the craft
- rigging and employing the following signalling devices from the survival craft: • heliograph – accurately illuminating a target at least 300 metres away • sea marker dye – deploying a sea marker dye effectively and safely using prevailing currents to optimise signature • flare – employing a signal flare effectively without threatening persons or survival equipment
- use surface and underwater swimming techniques including at least one of: • duck diving • swimming while clothed • treading water in location
- Deploy and operate water and food procurement devices including at least one of: • reverse osmosis machine • solar stills
Knowledge evidence
- aircraft response signals
- emergency signalling
- heat-retaining position
- improvised flotation techniques
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Questions about assessing DEFSUR011
What does an assessment tool for DEFSUR011 need to cover?
To satisfy the Principles of Assessment and Rules of Evidence, an assessment for DEFSUR011 needs to address all 27 unit components: 2 elements with 13 performance criteria, 10 performance evidence requirements, 4 knowledge evidence requirements, and the foundation skills. A coverage matrix mapping each question and task to these components is what an auditor looks for.
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Related units
- DEFSUR001 — Catch aquatic animals in a survival situation
- DEFSUR002 — Construct improvised weapons and equipment in a survival situation
- DEFSUR003 — Employ visual emergency signalling techniques in a survival situation
- DEFSUR004 — Erect a survival shelter using natural resources in a survival situation
- DEFSUR005 — Maintain physical and emotional health and fitness in a survival environment
- DEFSUR006 — Navigate using celestial aids
- DEFSUR007 — Preserve and cook foodstuffs in a survival situation
- DEFSUR008 — Produce fire using improvised means in a survival situation
- DEFSUR009 — Trap and kill animals in a survival situation
- DEFSUR010 — Locate, treat and manage water in a survival situation
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