California, Oregon, Washington

Alaska

Alaska Marine Safety Education Association
2924 Halibut Point Road
Sitka, AK 99835
(907) 747-3287
AMSEA offers a wide range of safety training, including a drill-instructor course, which is taught through several facilities in Alaska.

Alaska Vocational Technical Center
P.O. Box 889
Seward, AK 99664
(907) 224-3322
ACTech offers a five-day vessel operator and crew member safety training course, a three-day safety equipment and emergency procedure course, a two-day shipboard emergency medicine course, a one-day CPR course, a two-day CPR-instructor course and AMSEA's drill-instructor course. Classes are scheduled throughout the year.

Alaska Wilderness Studies
University of Alaska, Anchorage
3211 Providence Drive
Building K, Room 134
Anchorage, AK 99508
(907) 786-4066
AWS offers regularly scheduled courses in first aid and cold-water survival.

Bay Safety
P.O. Box 2314
Homer, AK 99603
(907) 235-7908
Bay Safety offers first aid and CPR courses, as well as drill training courses upon request.

Educational Training Company
P.O. Box 464
Sitka, AK 99835
(907)747-5454

Marine Technical Center
University of Alaska Southeast, Juneau
11120 Glacier Highway
Juneau, AK 99801
(907) 465-8770
The Marine Technical Center offers reularly scheduled first aid and CPR courses, as well as safety-drills courses.

Maritime Studies
University of Alaska Southeast, Ketchikan
2600 7th Avenue
Ketchikan, AK 99901
(907) 225-6177

Southeast Regional Emergency Medical Services Council
207 Moller Drive, Room 113
Sitka, AK 99835
(907) 747-8005
The Medical Services Council has certified instructors in ports throughout Southeast Alaska who teach courses upon request in first aid and CPR, hypothermia and near-drowning, and drills.

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California

Coast Wise Marine Safety Training
1385 Pebble Beach Drive
Crescent City, CA 95531
(707) 464-2934
Courses are offered upon request, and Coast Wise instructor Bev Noll can travel to ports in California, Oregon and Washington to teach classes on drills and other subjects.

Maritime Institute
1310 Rosecrans Street, Suite G
San Diego, CA 92106
(619) 225-1783
Maritime Institute offers upon request an eight-hour drills course, a one- and three-day stability course, a CPR and first aid course, and a one- and two-day Rules of the Road course.

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Oregon

Oregon Sea Grant
Oregon State University
Lincoln County Extension Office
29 Southeast Second
Newport, OR 97365
(541) 265-4107
Oregon Sea Grant offers a three-day Coast Guard-approved drill-instruction course, which includes instruction and practice in life rafts, PFD's, fire fighting, emergency pumps, hypothermia treatment and construction of a personal survival kit. Courses are offered upon request with a minimum enrollment.

Maritime Science Program
Clatsop Community College
1653 Jerome Avenue
Astoria, OR 97103
(503) 325-7962
CCC offers the same three-day drill-instructor course described above. Classes are offered upon request.

Southwestern Oregon Community College
1988 Newmark
Coos Bay, OR 97420
(541) 888-7212
SWOCC offers the same three-day drill-instruction course described above. Classes are offered upon request.

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Washington

Acordia Pettit-Morry Company
520 Pike Street
Seattle, WA 98101
(206) 447-0500
Acordia Pettit-Morry safety specialist and Fishermen's News columnist Alan Dujenski teaches Coast Guard-approved courses in safety and survival coastwide, upon request.

Captain Christian Volkle Marine Safety
6533 208th SW #G-120
Lynnwood, WA 98036
(206) 670-6130
Captain Volkle offers Coast Guard-approved courses in drills, orientation and drill-instructor certification. He is also ciertified to issue Coast Guard stickers and certificates. Captain Volkle also offers courses in OSHA compliance. The courses, which are offered coastwide, are taught upon request with a minimum number of participants.

Fremont Maritime Services
501 North 36th Street, #217
Seattle, WA 98103
(206) 782-4308
Fremont Maritime offers monthly marine fire responder, basic fire fighting and advanced fire fighting courses. A two-day shipboard damage control course and a three-day marine safety and survival course are available upon request.

Maritime Health Services
4050 Columbia SeaFirst Center
701 5th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 781-8770
MHS offers a monthly course in safety and survival. The three-day class covers CPR and first aid, wound management and soucher technique and an introduction to pharmacuticals, as well as other injury-care instruction.

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Maritime Training Center
Seattle Central Community College
4455 Shilshole Avenue NW
Seattle, WA 98107
(206) 782-2647

National Cargo Bureau
3161 Elliot Avenue, Suite 315
Seattle, WA 98121
(206) 285-5250
NCB offers a Coast Guard-approved correspondence course in vessel stability available to fishermen coastwide.

North Pacific Fishing Vessel Owners' Association
1900 West Emerson, Suite 101
Seattle, WA 98119
(206) 285-3383
NPFVOA offers monthly courses in fire prevention and control, medical emergencies at sea, safety equipment and survival procedures, navigation and collision avoidance, fishing vessel stability, crane operations and maintenance, safe cargo handling, trawl deck safety, hand and back injury prevention and safety in the processing factory. A monthly drill-instructor workshop is also offered as well as courses in S.C.B.A., advanced medical emergencies at sea and onboard safety.

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Northwest Maritime Educational Services
1900 West Emerson Place
Seattle, WA 98119
NMES offers preperation courses for Coast Guard licensing.

Northwest Mechant Marine Training Services
2456 1st Avenue South
Seattle, WA 98134
(206) 467-1465
NMMTS offers an eight-day safety-instructor course upon request with a minimum of six people per class.

Pacific Northwet Radar School
2333 Third Avenue
Seattle, WA 98121-1711
Free STCW Consulations – 888-893-STCW
(206) 441-2880; FAX (206) 441-2995
e-mail: pnradar@mates.org
Internet: http://www.mates.org
Training Mariners in the following STCW Courses: GMDSS, ARPA, RADAR, BRM.

Washington Sea Grant
University of Washington
3716 Brooklyn Avenue N.E.
Seattle, WA 98105
(206) 543-6600
WSG offers safety and survival courses in ports throughout Washington.

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