Experience a shipwreck in real-life conditions
Since 2017, this unique simulation has combined practical and scientific dimensions, enabling the study of real-life survival conditions at sea. In the first edition, twelve participants, including eleven cadets and one firefighter, boarded an inflatable life raft. In 2022, the second edition took on a larger scale, involving twenty-two participants, divided between an inflatable raft and a rigid boat.
A third, larger-scale edition
For this new edition, the experience takes on a whole new scale. The scenario simulates the abandonment of a passenger ship, mobilizing a 50-person life raft. The crew will comprise eight students from the École nationale supérieure maritime (ENSM), two firefighters, three medical personnel and around thirty external participants from non-maritime backgrounds. This openness to non-experts is one of the major novelties of the project, aimed at gathering data on a variety of profiles.
The Au Rad'Lô association, which organizes the event, stresses the importance of this exercise in improving knowledge of how to react in maritime distress situations. Interested volunteers can still apply by writing to : projetsurvie@supmaritime.fr .
