Vlissingen

Helicopter Underwater Escape Training

HUET

Realistic Training in Controlled Conditions

During the HUET training, participants experience what it’s like to respond to a helicopter emergency at sea. In our simulator, a cabin is submerged underwater, allowing you to learn how to cope with disorientation, water pressure, limited visibility, and time constraints. All exercises are conducted under the safe supervision of experienced instructors, enabling participants to build confidence step by step.

What makes this training unique is the combination of realistic simulation and maximum safety. Participants go through a variety of scenarios — from an emergency landing on water to a full capsize, practicing how to escape from a submerged cabin.

Who is it for?

This training is designed for offshore personnel, maritime professionals, and others who regularly travel by helicopter to ships, platforms, or wind farms. Participants learn not only how to bring themselves to safety but also how to work effectively with colleagues during an emergency.

What You’ll Practice

Our instructors provide intensive guidance as you learn to safely escape from a submerged helicopter cabin. You’ll practice:

• Correct use of emergency breathing systems (EBS or equivalent)

• Escaping from an overturned or submerged helicopter cabin

• Maintaining orientation and composure under panic and limited visibility

• Using emergency exits, seatbelts, and evacuation equipment

• Working together and supporting each other during evacuations

Each exercise is carried out under strict safety protocols, with real-time monitoring and a thorough debriefing afterward. This ensures you not only master the techniques but also understand the reasoning behind every action.

For Your Organization

Would you like to organize HUET training for your team or create a customized program?
Contact us — we offer tailored and group training options designed to meet your organization’s specific needs.

The ultimate leap to safety

Free fall lifeboat

During this training, participants experience what it’s like to make a real free fall in an actual free fall lifeboat. The exercise is carried out under strict safety conditions, allowing you to feel the impact of the launch and learn how to respond effectively after the water landing.

What makes this training unique is the balance between realism and safety. Together with an instructor, you perform the launch, practice the required procedures, and experience the conditions that may occur during an actual emergency.

Who is it for?

This training is designed for offshore and maritime personnel who need to know how to act during an evacuation using a free fall lifeboat. It is relevant for anyone working on installations or vessels equipped with this type of lifesaving craft.

What You’ll Practice

Our instructors guide you step by step through the safe execution of a free fall launch. You’ll learn to:

• Prepare and take the correct seating and body position before launch

• Communicate and work together inside the lifeboat

• Perform the correct actions immediately after water impact

• Follow procedures for starting and maneuvering the lifeboat

• Maintain safety and orientation after evacuation

All exercises are conducted under strict safety protocols, with a detailed briefing beforehand and a debriefing afterward. This way, you not only learn what to do, but also why — building confidence in the safe and effective use of the lifeboat.

For Your Organization

Would you like your team to be fully prepared for evacuation by free fall lifeboat?
Contact us for group options or customized training programs.

Advanced training facility for shipboard fire-fighting

BBM

BBM: Realistic Training in Controlled Conditions

In our fire training facility, participants learn how to act in a truly life-like fire situation. They are confronted with intense heat, dense smoke, limited visibility, and constant time pressure. This facility is specifically designed for demanding courses such as STCW Advanced Fire Fighting, NOGEPA 2.6A/B, company emergency response, and realistic scenario-based team training exercises.

What makes our fire training facility unique is the careful balance between realism and safety. The space consists of multiple compartments that can be heated and filled with smoke, either individually or in combination. This enables the practice of a wide range of scenarios: from an engine room fire or onboard compartment fire, to complex situations involving disorientation, explosion hazards, or teamwork under breathing apparatus.

Target Audience

This training environment is used by maritime personnel, offshore teams, industrial emergency responders, and company emergency response officers who must be prepared for fire incidents. Both individual skills and team dynamics are central: participants practice communication, leadership, and decision-making under pressure.

What You Will Practice

Instructors will guide you step by step in the correct approach to and suppression of fire outbreaks. You will learn, among other things:

• The correct use of breathing apparatus

• Orientation and safety in dense smoke

• Deployment of hoses and extinguishing agents in confined spaces

• Teamwork during heat and smoke development

• Leading fire-fighting operations (for advanced participants)

All activities take place under strict safety protocols, with real-time monitoring and a debriefing after each scenario. This way, you learn not only what to do, but also why, and how to improve as a team.

Interested in Using This Facility?

Would you like to use this training environment for your team training or a specific exercise scenario?
Please contact us for tailor-made programs or group options.

Safe training in realistic water conditions

Pool

Our pool is specifically designed for maritime and offshore safety training. Here, participants can practice various rescue and evacuation procedures in the water under controlled conditions.

What makes this pool unique is its versatility: it can be used for training with life rafts, boarding exercises, HUET simulations, capsize and entry drills, and the use of safety equipment such as the CA-EBS. All activities are supervised by experienced instructors to ensure a safe learning environment.

Who is it for?

The pool is used by offshore personnel, maritime crews, industrial emergency responders, and trainees who want to gain hands-on experience in water-related emergency situations.

What You’ll Practice

Under the guidance of experienced instructors, you can train in the pool in areas such as:

• Swimming and survival while wearing work clothes or a life jacket

• Boarding and evacuating via a boarding platform

• Using and boarding life rafts

• Training with CA-EBS and other breathing aids

• Escaping from the HUET installation (helicopter underwater escape)

• Performing capsize and orientation exercises

• Working together and communicating effectively during water emergencies

All exercises are conducted under strict safety protocols and followed by a debriefing, ensuring participants not only master the procedures but also understand the principles behind them.

For Your Organization

Would you like to use the pool for customized training or team exercises?
Contact us — we offer group sessions and tailor the program to meet your organization’s specific needs.

Safe working at height training in accordance with GWO standards

Working at Height Tower

The Working at Height Tower has been specifically designed for training participants in safe working, rescue, and evacuation techniques at height. The tower is widely used for GWO (Global Wind Organisation) courses, such as Working at Heights, and also provides training opportunities for offshore, maritime, and industrial scenarios.

What makes this tower unique is its versatility: participants can practice fall protection, climbing and descent techniques, as well as rescue and evacuation procedures. With multiple platforms and training stations, the tower is suitable for both basic and advanced levels.

Who is it for?

The Working at Height Tower is used by wind industry teams, offshore and maritime personnel, industrial technicians, and emergency responders who need to work safely at height or on elevated installations.

What You’ll Practice

Under the guidance of experienced instructors, participants will learn to:

• Use personal fall protection equipment correctly (harness, lines, and anchor points)

• Apply climbing techniques and work safely at height

• Perform rescue and evacuation of colleagues in emergency situations

• Operate lifting and descent systems

• Follow emergency procedures in case of a fall incident

• Work together and communicate effectively during height-related operations

All exercises are conducted under strict safety protocols and fully aligned with the international standards of the Global Wind Organisation (GWO).

For Your Organization

Would you like your team to train according to GWO standards or follow customized height safety scenarios?
Contact us — we’ll develop a program tailored to your sector and safety objectives.

Compartment Fire Behaviour Training

CFBT

Understanding fire behavior in confined spaces

Through the Compartment Fire Behaviour Training (CFBT), participants experience how a fire develops and behaves in an enclosed environment. In this training facility, the entire fire development process becomes visible — from ignition and smoke formation to flashover.

What makes CFBT unique is that participants can safely observe, feel, and understand what happens during fire development under the close supervision of experienced instructors. This not only deepens theoretical knowledge but also raises awareness of the risks associated with firefighting in confined spaces.

Who is it for

The CFBT training is intended for firefighters, maritime personnel, offshore teams, and industrial emergency responders who want to gain a deeper understanding of fire dynamics and the influence of ventilation, smoke, and heat on fire behavior.

What you’ll practice

Under the guidance of experienced instructors, participants will learn to:

• Recognize early signs of fire development

• Observe smoke behavior, heat buildup, and flame spread

• Understand flashover and backdraft and their associated dangers

• Identify how ventilation affects fire development

• Approach incidents safely and assess risks effectively

• Apply theoretical knowledge in practical, scenario-based training

The training is conducted under strict safety protocols. Afterward, a detailed debriefing follows in which observations and key lessons from the exercise are discussed.

For your organization

Would you like your team to gain a deeper understanding of fire behavior and safe response in confined space fires?
Contact us — we’ll tailor the CFBT training to the specific needs of your organization.

Hands-on training with inflatable rescue boats

Duarry

The Duarry is our inflatable rescue boat, specifically designed for realistic evacuation and rescue exercises. Participants experience how this fast and highly maneuverable craft is used during emergencies and how to act safely under pressure.

What makes this facility unique is that the Duarry can be deployed directly from the Lingepoort and used for a wide range of scenarios. From evacuating people from a vessel to conducting search and rescue operations on the water — everything can be practiced under safe, controlled conditions.

Who is it for?

The Duarry is used by maritime personnel, offshore teams, and emergency responders who deal with evacuations or sea rescues in their line of work and want to train in the use of an inflatable rescue boat.

What You’ll Practice

Under the guidance of experienced instructors, you’ll learn to:

• Prepare and launch the Duarry

• Board and position crew and passengers correctly

• Steer and maneuver an inflatable rescue boat

• Evacuate people from a vessel or platform

• Conduct search and rescue operations on the water

• Work together and communicate effectively during emergency scenarios

All exercises take place under strict safety protocols, with thorough briefings and debriefings. This way, participants build confidence in deploying the Duarry effectively during emergencies.

For Your Organization

Would you like to use the Duarry for team training or a customized program?
Contact us — we’ll be happy to discuss the possibilities and tailor the training to your organization’s specific needs.

Realistic training in a multi-compartment residential structure

Bungalow

The Bungalow is a wood-fired training facility designed to simulate a real single-story residential house. It features multiple bedrooms and compartmentalized spaces, making it ideal for exercises focused on search techniques, movement, and orientation.

What makes the Bungalow unique is the combination of a familiar living environment with challenging fire conditions. Its wood-fired design allows participants to experience realistic smoke and heat development. The facility is also perfect for practicing with thermal imaging cameras — identifying and locating hot spots can be trained very effectively here.

Who is it for?

The Bungalow is used by firefighters, maritime personnel, offshore teams, industrial emergency responders, and emergency response officers (BHV) who want to train in a realistic residential environment with an emphasis on search operations and fire dynamics.

What You’ll Practice

Under the guidance of experienced instructors, participants will learn to:

• Conduct a search during a residential fire with multiple compartments

• Apply movement techniques while using breathing apparatus

• Perform rescue and evacuation of casualties from bedrooms and other rooms

• Use a thermal imaging camera to identify and locate hot spots

• Operate effectively under conditions of smoke, heat, and limited visibility

• Coordinate as a team and communicate during residential fire operations

All exercises are wood-fired and conducted under strict safety protocols. Each session concludes with a debriefing to connect practical experience with theoretical knowledge.

For Your Organization

Would you like your team to train in search techniques, heat recognition, and firefighting within a realistic residential environment?
Contact us — we’ll create a training program tailored to your organization’s learning objectives.

Training under breathing apparatus in realistic conditions

Dragerbaan

The Dräger Training Maze is specifically designed to help participants practice using breathing apparatus in challenging conditions. In a network of corridors, obstacles, and limited visibility, trainees learn how to move safely and effectively under pressure.

What makes the Dräger Training Maze unique is the combination of physical exertion, orientation, and breathing apparatus use. Participants experience the importance of staying calm, managing air consumption, and working effectively as a team in demanding environments.

Who is it for

The Dräger Training Maze is used by maritime personnel, offshore teams, industrial emergency responders, firefighters, and emergency response officers (BHV) who need to become proficient in the use of breathing apparatus and in working within confined or hazardous spaces.

What you’ll practice

Under the guidance of experienced instructors, participants will learn to:

• Use and check breathing apparatus correctly

• Control air consumption under physical strain

• Navigate and orient themselves in a maze with limited visibility

• Overcome obstacles and narrow passages

• Work together and communicate effectively while using breathing apparatus

• Stay calm and manage stress responses

All exercises are conducted under strict safety protocols and monitored by instructors, ensuring a safe yet highly realistic learning experience.

For your organization

Would you like your team to train with breathing apparatus in realistic scenarios?
Contact us — we’ll design a customized program that reflects the practical challenges of your organization.

Realistic Training in Controlled Conditions

Lifeboat

During this training, participants learn how to properly launch and operate a davit-launched lifeboat. You’ll experience each step of the process — from launching and boarding to maneuvering away — including the procedures to follow in an emergency situation.

What makes this training unique is its hands-on approach using a fully equipped lifeboat and davit system. This allows you to experience, under safe conditions, how a real evacuation unfolds on board.

Who is it for?

This training is designed for crew members, offshore personnel, and maritime professionals who need to know how to correctly operate and use a davit-launched lifeboat. Both individual tasks and teamwork during an evacuation are thoroughly covered.

What You’ll Practice

Under the guidance of experienced instructors, you’ll go through every step involved in launching and operating the lifeboat. You’ll learn to:

• Prepare the lifeboat and crew for launch

• Operate the davit system correctly

• Board safely and maintain proper seating positions during launch

• Follow procedures immediately after water contact

• Start, maneuver, and safely navigate the lifeboat away from the vessel

• Work together and communicate effectively during an evacuation

All exercises are conducted under strict safety protocols, with a thorough briefing beforehand and a debriefing afterward. This approach helps you build both confidence and competence in using this essential lifesaving craft.

For Your Organization

Would you like your team to be fully prepared for evacuation using a davit-launched lifeboat?
Feel free to contact us — we offer customized programs and group training options tailored to your organization’s specific needs.