The STCW95 Basic Safety Training Refresher course compulsory for all STCW certificates. Please note that you can undertake your STCW Basic Fire Fighting (BFF) and Personal Survival Techniques (PST) refresher training at any marine school that offers STCW Basic Fire Fighting and Personal Survival Techniques Refresher courses that meet STCW regulations Code A – VI/1-2 and Code A – VI/1-1.

  • Basic STCW95 refresher training is mandatory every five years.
  • This is a 2-day course of practical training for Personal Survival Techniques and Basic Fire Fighting.
  • To avoid retaking the entire Personal Survival Techniques module, students must complete a self-declaration form declaring they have performed the following duties during drills or simulated exercise situations within the last 5 years:
- Donning a life jacket
- Boarding a survival craft from ship, while wearing a life jacket
- Taking initial actions on boarding a lifeboat to enhance chance of survival
- Streaming a lifeboat drogue or sea-anchor
- Operating survival craft equipment
 -Operating location devices, including radio equipment
* Note that the vessels' registered number and dates on board are also required on the declaration.


As of April 30th, 2022, IYT is no longer able to renew existing or issue new IYT STCW certificates for students. There is nothing wrong with your account. Your original STCW certificate remains valid — the steps below explain how to keep it valid.

The Marshall Islands Shipping Registry (MI) changed its documentation processing system on May 1st, 2022, and is no longer allowing any outside training authority or third party to issue certificates on its behalf.

To keep your STCW Basic Safety Training valid, you do not renew the certificate through IYT. Instead: keep your original Marshall Islands STCW certificate, and complete Basic Fire Fighting (BFF) and Personal Survival Techniques (PST) Refresher training every 5 years at any marine school offering courses that meet STCW Code A-VI/1-2 and A-VI/1-1. Carry the refresher certificates together with your original certificate as proof of valid STCW qualifications. Do not follow any dashboard revalidation steps for STCW certificates — those steps apply to Master of Yachts (MOY) certificates only.

Please note that expiry date on the Basic Safety Training STCW certificates only refers to the expiration of the Basic Fire Fighting (BFF) and Personal Survival Techniques (PST) components, as refresher training must be completed every 5 years for these components. Candidates/Crew need only hold their original Marshall Islands approved IYT STCW Certificates, plus hold a “Refresher Training” certificate of completion, and keep together to present to any agency requesting proof of holding valid Basic Safety STCW qualifications.