Lifeboat simulator installed on Prosafe’s Safe Boreas

Virtual Marine Technology, a Canadian simulation services provider, announced it has installed its first lifeboat simulator system in Norway. The simulator was installed onto Prosafe’s Safe Boreas accommodation vessel in Stavanger.

The simulator system was unveiled in as an element of the vessel’s safety equipment.

Mike Jubb, Offshore Installation Manager on the Safe Boreas says; “The lifeboat simulator gives us the ability to enhance the emergency drills we do on the vessel. As an organization we’re continuously looking for ways to further develop the competency of our personnel. The freefall lifeboat simulator allows our coxswains to safely practice emergency evacuation scenarios that are specific to the Safe Boreas, and that are not possible during conventional freefall coxswain training.”

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